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Composers of High Baroque Flute Music
*Click on highlighted names to link to each composer's Internet site.*

French Composers:

Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)  
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755)
Jean Jacques Naudot (1690-1762)
Pierre Gabriel Buffardin (1690-1768)
Jean Marie Leclair (1697-1764)
Michel Blavet (1700-1764)
Louis Gabriel Guillemain (1705-1770)
Michel Corrette (1709-1795)
Jean Daniel Braun (dates unknown)

Italian Composers:

Archangelo Corelli (1653-1785)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Guiseppe Matteo Alberti (1685-1751)
Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739)
Joseph Meck (1690-1758)
Guiseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
Pietro Locatelli (1695-1764)    (English Site)
Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1698-1775)
Baldasare Galuppi (1706-1785)
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)
  
Italian to English:

Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)
Francesco Barsanti (1690-1772)
Guiseppe Sammartini (1695-1750)
  
German to English:

Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667-1752)
George Frederick Handel (1685-1759)

English:

Robert Valentine (1680-1735)
Jean Baptiste Loeillet (1680-1730)
Jacques Loeillet (1685-1748)
Jean Baptiste Loeillet  de Gant (1688-1720)
Thomas Roseingrave (1688-1766)
Robert Woodcock (1690-1728)
John Frederick Ranish (1693-1777)
John Hebden (1712-1765)
Edward Miller (1735-1807)

German:  

Georg Phillip Telemann (1681-1767)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Swedish:

Johan Helmich Roman (1694-1758)