Twelve Duettos for Two French Horns or Two German Flutes - Charles (Liverpool Sadler, 1757)
Extract from 'Apollo's cabinet:, or, The muses delight. : an accurate collection of English and Italian songs, cantatas and duetts, set to music for the harpsichord, violin, German flute &c. : with Twelve Duettos for two French horns / composed by Mr. Charles ; and instructions for the voice, violin, harpsichord or spinet, German flute, common flute, hautboy, French horn, basson, and bass-violin. Also a compleat musical dictionary, and several hundred English and Scots songs, without the music.' Liverpool, Sadler, 1757
parts opposite each other
see John Humphries, The Early Horn: A Practical Guide (Cambridge, 2000), 106n26
On the mysterious Mr. Charlessee 'A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800, Volume 3', ed. by Philip H. Highfill, Kalman A. Burnim, Edward A. Langhans, Southern Illinois University Press, 1975, p170-180.
Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); Instrumental music; Duet