Gottfried Weber (1779-1839), who is known to most musicians today only as a theoretician, composed songs for voice and piano, choral works and oratorios, and a large number of pieces for flute and guitar. It is thanks in part to Weber's thorough knowledge of the playing techniqueof these two instruments that his compositions for them – at least as regards the content of the flute part – can still stand alongside the sets of variations by Schubert or Silcher as imaginative and brilliant practice ...

Variationen op. 37 über ein Thema aus der Oper "Der Freischütz" von C. M. v. Weber