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'There is something abnormal in almost all Bach's flute sonatas,' wrote Frans Bruggen in the booklet note for his recording of these pieces. It is true that the flute sontas do not constitute a homogeneous corpus within the composer's output. We do not possess the 'six flute sonatas' as we have, for instance, the 'six sonatas for violin and harpsichord' or the 'six suites for unaccompanied cello.' Each of Bach's works for flute corresponds to a different creative period and he did not take the trouble to assemble them in a single manuscript with a view of publication, for example. It was the first editors of these sonatas in the 19th century who divided them into groups.