[3] Despite this, he learnt to play the flute, and piano, from his father Jacob, a professor of music, and Jacques de Jong, flautist to the King of Holland.

He performed no less than eleven times as solo flautist with the orchestra under Willem Kes, playing such repertoire as Doppler's L'oiseau des bois, op.

Fransella had the distinction of being a soloist at the first Henry Wood Promenade concert on 10 August 1895, playing two movements from the Suite de Trois Morceaux by Benjamin Godard.

[24] At the concert, the Fransella Flute Quartet premiered two works by Thomas Harrison Frewin, a composer and the first violin in Henry Wood's Queens' Hall Orchestra.

[25] In 1900[26] and 1901 as conductor, musical director and manager of the summer theatre at Ranelagh Gardens, Felixstowe, he directed his own series of promenade concerts with his own orchestra.

[27] He played with the Queen's Hall Wind Quintet, founded in 1902[28] alongside Désiré Lalande (oboe), Manuel Gomez (clarinet), Frederick James (bassoon) and Adolf Borsdorf (horn).

On 13 March 1899, at an Albert Fransella Chamber Concert, there was the first performance of Delius’s Seven Songs from the Norwegian, at the Queen's (Small) Hall with Minna Fischer.

[29] Fransella gave the first English performance of Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune at a Promenade concert with the Queen's Hall Orchestra on the 20th of August, 1904.

The concert in aid of the League of Mercy, with invitations issued by the Prince and Princess of Wales, included such artists as Enrico Caruso, John McCormack, Efrem Zimbalist, Nellie Melba and Antonio Scotti.

Fransella was the first flute player to be a named recording artist[43] and accompanied the great sopranos Luisa Tetrazzini,[44][45] Nellie Melba,[46] Ellen Beach Yaw,[47] Evangeline Florence,[48] Alice Esty,[49] Ruth Vincent, Dorothy Silk,[50]Adelina Patti, Christina Nilsson[51] Emma Albani,[52] Mademoiselle Dolores[53] and Mignon Nevada.

Bach, Alfredo Casella, Cécile Chaminade, Katherine Eggar, Philippe Gaubert, Mozart, Susan Spain-Dunk, Carl Reinecke and Theodor Verhey.

[73] On 26 March 1917, the Oriana Madrigal Society[74] presented a concert at the Aeolian Hall which included the first performance of Arnold Bax's Elegiac Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp.

[76] Later that year, Fransella gave the first performance of Dora Bright's Suite Bretonne with the Queen's Hall Orchestra and Henry Wood at the Proms.

[77] In 1918, Fransella and a number of renowned musicians including Albert Sammons, Emile Sauret, William Murdoch, York Bowen, John Ireland, Eugène Goossens, Arnold Bax, Lionel Tertis, Felix Salmond and Walter Hyde sought to establish a new music conservatoire in London.

[79] On 6 October 1920, Fransella gave the first performance of Arthur Bliss's Rhapsody, for wordless soprano, tenor and chamber ensemble, at a Gerald Cooper Concert at the Mortimer Hall, London.

The performers were: Dorothy Helmrich (soprano), Gerald Cooper (tenor), Albert Fransella (flute), Mr. Hinchcliffe (clarinet), the Wadsworth Quartet and double bass.

[80] Later that year, on 15 December 1920, Fransella gave the first performance of Arthur Bliss's Rout, for wordless soprano and chamber ensemble, at the Piccadilly (London) home of Baroness d'Erlanger.

The performers were: Grace Crawford (soprano), Albert Fransella (flute), Charles Draper (clarinet), J. H. Plowman (percussion), Gwendolen Mason (harp), Philharmonic Quartet and Claude Hobday (double bass).

[83] Fransella, alongside Léon Goossens and Harry Berly gave the premiere of Gustav Holst’s Terzetto for flute, oboe and viola at the Faculty of Arts Gallery in Golden Square, London, in March 1926.