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Along with Cambini and Viotti, Alessandro Rolla (1757-1841) was one of the few Italian composers of his era who did not specialize in opera. He composed nearly 600 works, among them these "flute quartets" which formed a popular ensemble of the era. Rolla was an example of the most common type of musician of the time: a guest of aristocratic salons and thus dedicated to producing music for amateurs; a concert soloist, acclaimed in the great theaters; and a pedagogue, anxious to expand the repertoire of his own instrument or provide colleagues and students with the raw material at which to try their hand. He was an orchestral conductor at the Teatro alla Scala and a professor of viola at the Milan Conservatory from the year it was founded in 1808.