These works were an essential part of my flute education and I've kept playing them ever since, especially the works by Chaminade, Faure, Enesco, Gaubert and Taffanel. Above all (in my humble opinion) they help develop the breath control needed for long legato lines. They are also important for scales and arpeggios and other fast passagework with various articulations, large slurred and tongued intervals and clean and precise staccato, dynamic contrasts, exploiting (nearly) the flute's entire range, and general expressivity. Many of these pieces, such as the ones by Faure (Andantino and Allegro) and Enesco (Cantabile and Presto), use a similar two-part structure with a lyrical first part and a faster, more brilliant and scherzo-like second part. The musical challenge is to bring out the contrasting moods of these two sections.