Drouet-Briccialdi/ editor Trevor Wye - God Save the King/Queen Album Variations on British Airs Vol. 1 *Masters Book 1 covers composers A-P

Book 1 covers composers A-P

Arranger: Carr

with its middle European folk fell and falling phrases

Set of performance parts for flute and piano

Drouet-Briccialdi/ editor Trevor Wye - God Save the King/Queen Album Variations on British Airs Vol. 1 *Masters Book 1 covers composers A-PDescription: Drouet, like Paganini, wrote variations on God Save the King, which he performed to great acclaim in London on June 24 1829. At the same concert Mendelssohn, with whom Drouet had travelled to England, conducted the first English performance of his Midsummer Night's Dream. The occasion gave Drouet ample opportunity to show off his sensational double staccato. Some twenty years later Briccialdi, 'exceedingly popular in London' (Rockstro),