Sonata XIV in G

*Baroque Sonata*

1. Allegro
2. Affettuoso
3. Allegro

Frederick the Great (Frederick II): (24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until his death in 1786. Frederick was a patron of music. A meeting with Johann Sebastian Bach in 1747 in Potsdam led to Bach's writing The Musical Offering. He was a talented musician and composer in his own right, playing the transverse flute and composing 121 sonatas for flute and continuo, four concertos for flute and strings, four sinfonias, three military marches and seven arias.

Frederick's flute sonatas are written in the Baroque style in which flute plays the melody, sometimes imitating operatic vocal styles like the aria and recitative, while the accompaniment was usually played by just one instrument per part to highlight the delicate sound of the flute.

_Score 12 pp. Part 5 pp._