About the Music

Georg Philipp Telemann’s Suite for Flute and Strings in A Minor consists of seven movements: Overture, Les Plaisirs, Air à l’Italien, Menuet 1/Menuet 2, Réjouissance, Passepied 1/Passepied 2, and Polonaise. The Overture presented here presents a challenging, yet accessible, experience for its performers in the baroque style. The arrangement works well for advanced high school, college, or professional performers.

This version of the arrangement is for flute, three clarinets, bass clarinet. It is also available in the following instrumentations (click to view/purchase):

• 4 b-flat clarinets, bass clarinet
• flute, oboe, two clarinets, bass clarinet, optional bassoon
• flute, oboe, two clarinets, and bass clarinet

Score: 13 pages; parts: 3 pages each. Extended-range instrument NOT required for bass clarinet.

Listen to the work in its original instrumentation:

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About the Arranger

Peter J. Pecora, Jr., musician, composer and retired special education teacher, lives in New York State. He studied music at Onondaga Community College (A.A.S.), music education at the State University of New York at Buffalo (B.F.A. & M.F.A.), and special education at Syracuse University (M.S.).

Pete studied clarinet with David Bomstein (1973-1974), Gerald Zampino (1974-1975, at that time principal clarinet of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra), and Allen Sigel at SUNY Buffalo (1975-1978). His flute teachers were John Oberbrunner (1975, at that time principal flute of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra) and Petr Kotik (1976-1977) and Robert Mols (1977-1979) at SUNY Buffalo. He studied composing with Joe Riposo in central New York.

Pete taught private clarinet and saxophone lessons in central New York and was a special education teacher for many years. He has performed in and written music for many bands and musical settings in the Buffalo and Syracuse, NY areas, including jazz, rock, R&B, classical, and gospel music. He has also written music for and directed church choirs.

Pete’s compositions include music for clarinet, flute, and saxophone ranging from solo with piano to trios and quartets. Some of Pete’s compositions for flute have received honors from the National Flute Association in their annual Newly Published Music Competition. In 2020 his arrangement of Sussex Carol was a finalist in the trio category and in 2021 his original piece, The Sailor and the Sea, received an honorable mention in the trio category. His clarinet, flute, saxophone, and double reed compositions are available from Wonderful Winds in England.

Pete's current musical activities, besides composing and arranging, include playing flute and saxophone in the worship band at the church he attends and performing in the central New York area. Pete's music can be found at www.reverbnation.com.

(Photo by Sandra Roe, Photos at 1020)