The Quantum Flute Treaty is a reference manual for anyone interested in Baroque music. Its author, a keen observer and a keen critic of the music of his time, treasured valuable experiences in his time as a flutist in Dresden, his travels in Europe and his years as a flute teacher and turned them into the present work, which is extremely valuable today. for anyone who wants to approach the German repertoire of the XVIIIth century with a critical, founded and historically informed approach.

This book is far from being a mere flute method: its content (issues relating to improvisation, ornaments, musical forms, style ...) is not only useful to flutists, but is applicable to singing and other instruments.

Its balanced combination of meticulous detail and breadth of vision makes this work an excellent introduction to the musical thought, interpretation and style of the first half of the 18th century. This text is the materialization by Quantz of his desire to show readers his ideal way of interpreting music, as well as his understanding of the mixed style of his time.

For the first time in the publishing history, its translation to the Castilian made directly from the German original is published, and it is accompanied with an abundant critical apparatus in the form of notes. To the translation of the treaty are added the autobiography of Quantz and the preface to his Duetti, op. 2, texts that complement the reading of the first. In addition, as a whole they constitute practically all of the theoretical writings left to us by their author.