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 On one occasion a very celebrated conductor at a rehearsal of this work desired all three flutes to play the scale in unison. The first flautist refused to allow this, on the ground that Beethoven wrote it for one , Overture, Leonora, No. 3 flute only, and that it must be so played. Both were obstinate on the point, a quarrel ensued, and the first flute soon after threw up his post.

Weber may almost be said to have inaugurated a new era in scoring for the wood-wind. His treatment of the flute in Der Freischültz is very remarkable. Berlioz says of the sustained notes in "Softly sighs": "There is something ineffably dreamy in these low holding notes of the two flutes, during the