»For Jacques Delacôte«

For flute and violin
Duration: 6-7 minutes

The Duo for flute and violin was written shortly after a study visit to Finland, and is dedicated to a fellow student, the flutist and conductor Jacques Delacôte.

The piece provides an example of Staar's early involvement with dodecaphony, whose application here remains at a very superficial and rudimentary level. It consists of three movements:

The Duo is one of the few pieces to have survived the composer's "purges," in which he destroyed the majority of his early attempts at composition.