Monday 26 July 2010
Tune of the Day: Souvenir des Alpes
by Theobald Boehm
![The Alps](http://www.flutetunes.com/img/posts/alps.jpg)
Theobald Boehm, the inventor who perfected the modern Western concert flute and its improved fingering system, was also a virtuoso flutist as well as a celebrated composer for the instrument. This “Souvenir of the Alps”, written in 1852, is the fifth of a set of six such pieces.