The arrangement of well-known and successful pieces of music in all conceivable instrumentations was common at all times and often the only way to disseminate music, and in this sense was only replaced by the technical possibilities of recording music.
Of course, Mozart's music was very suitable for arrangements, especially his operas with their unforgettable melodies, which are generally easy to play and therefore provocatively easy to achieve in terms of both effort and profit.
I have not yet been able to find out who Henry Lea, the arranger of this wonderful version of the fiery overture to Mozart's opera cosi fan tutte for 3 flutes, was. In any case, this arrangement was published in London in an edition by Lea himself.
Some errors in the musical text as well as a few missing matches in the articulation of the parts in the first edition have been tacitly corrected in this new edition.
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