This hitherto unpublished flute concerto by Abel most probably dates from his Dresden period, i.e. it was written before his departure for England in 1759. It has survived in the collection of Carl Jakob Christian Klipfel, which is now in the music library of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin. Klipfel was an amateur musician and porcelain painter in Meissen and was well acquainted with Frederick the Great, who later made him co-director of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Berlin.

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