Richard Carte, one of the most important innovators in 19th-century flute design, was still in his teens when he made this ingenious Mozart arrangement in 1827, but his expertise was immediately noticed in the press: "There is something in the idea at once so exalted, and so liberal, of arranging these classical compositions, as harmony for flutes, that every amateur, we are persuaded, professing a taste for the highest beauties of the instrument, will become a ready subscriber". |
