The Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents “Giulianiad,” its final 2013 program featuring works for flute and guitar by Mauro Giuliani on period instruments with John Schneiderman on the early 19th-century guitar and Jeffrey Cohan on an 8-keyed flute made in London in 1820.

The show is on Sunday afternoon, June 2 at 1:30  p.m. at the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church in Eastsound.

Known as the most famous composer of music for flute and guitar, Giuliani was a phenomenal guitar virtuoso whose music is very rarely heard on the instruments with which he and his friend Beethoven were familiar.

These tunes are considerably sweeter, more intimate and expressively nuanced than their modern equivalents. Giuliani composed the “cream” of the flute and guitar duo repertoire from Beethoven’s time, which includes duos, serenades, divertimenti, marches, dances, and arrangements of opera melodies and other popular tunes of his day in variations and potpourris.

The Giulianiad was a journal for guitarists published in London a few years after Giuliani’s death.

For more info about the Salish Sea Early Music Festival, visit salishseafestival.org.