12 Fantasias for Solo Flute

Georg Philipp Telemann's 12 fantaisies à traversière sans basse,[1] 12 Fantasias for Solo Flute, TWV 40:2–13, were published in Hamburg in 1732–33.

An extant copy of the publication, conserved in Brussels, has a spurious title page reading Fantasie per il Violino senza Basso (Fantasias for Solo Violin).

[4] In this arrangement, through the use of double stops, some many-voiced parts appear as real polyphonic pieces.

This work comprises the following: The collection is arranged by key, progressing more or less stepwise from A major to G minor.

Another was proposed by scholar Wolfgang Hirschmann: there are four modal groups of three fantasias: major-minor-minor, major-major-minor, major-minor-major, and minor-major-minor.