(Apologies to JGoo. Your thread was not tagged, so we thought an emergency thread was needed, and now I’m not sure how to delete it.)

Carl Friedrich Abel was an early Classical composer, living from 1723 to 1787. He studied with J.S. Bach before playing viola da gamba in the Dresden court orchestra for fifteen years. He then moved to London, where he and Johann Christian Bach together established the first subscription concert series.

Due to a mistaken attribution, Mozart’s 3rd symphony is actually by Carl Friedrich Abel. Mozart had written out a copy of the symphony as a boy during his time in London, and when the first catalogue of Mozart’s works was published, it was assumed that this symphony was his own work. (Mozart’s 2nd and 37th symphonies also turned out not to have been written by him).

Here are some of Abel’s flute concerti. I have this CD and often listen to it along with the flute concerti of C.P.E. Bach on long car rides.