30 Studies for Flute Solo

Book excerpt: Sigfrid Karg-Elert is no strange name to flautists. The Op. 107 was The 30 Caprices for Flute were written specifically for a friend of Karg-Elert's, a flautist bound for service in the war. These short exercises were designed to challenge linear one-staff thinking and in short, keep the friend from becoming bored. They are now a standard set of technical, dynamic, and phrasing exercises for young flute students all over the world. Re-issued from the original authoratitive plates of Steingräber Verlag, 1910, originally printed in Leipzig. Reprinted here by Edition Fleury 2013. As with all Edition Fleury publications, blank staff paper and section for teacher notes are present in the back of the book.