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Alfred Laubin was born in 1906 in Detroit, where his father Carl was a charter member of that city's orchestra, playing the oboe and the clarinet. His early oboe studies were in Boston with Lenom, DeVergie, and Gillet, [ clarification needed ] who exercised the greatest influence on Laubin to start making oboes.
The oboe is especially used in classical music, film music, some genres of folk music, and is occasionally heard in jazz, rock, pop, and popular music. The oboe is widely recognized as the instrument that tunes the orchestra with its distinctive 'A'. [3] A musician who plays the oboe is called an oboist.
Thomas Stanesby Sr. (c.1668–1734) and Thomas Stanesby Jr (1692–1754) [1] were English oboe, flute, bassoon and recorder-makers of the 18th century. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Many of their instruments survive in museum collections around the world, and are widely copied by instrument makers of the present day.
A. Laubin, Inc. was an American maker of oboes and English horns, formerly located in Peekskill, New York. The first Laubin oboe was made in 1931 by Alfred Laubin, a performing musician who was dissatisfied with the oboes available at the time. Building an oboe began as a home project, but soon Mr. Laubin was able to make an instrument which ...
Jean Hotteterre (1677–1720) was a French composer and musician of the Hotteterre family. [1]Hotteterre worked at the family workshop on the Rue de Harlay, Paris until his death at the court of Louis XIV of France.
The oboe d'amore was invented in the eighteenth century and was first used by Christoph Graupner in his cantata Wie wunderbar ist Gottes Güt (1717). Johann Sebastian Bach wrote many pieces—a concerto, many of his cantatas, and the Et in Spiritum sanctum movement of his Mass in B minor—for the instrument.
Marcel Tabuteau, profile written by Laila Storch and published in To the World's Oboists by the International Double Reed Society; Marcel Tabuteau First Hand, a comprehensive website containing first-hand documentation of the teachings, performances, career and daily life of Marcel Tabuteau.
Oboe Musical artist Marc Lifschey (June 16, 1926 – November 8, 2000) was an American oboist who played principal oboe for the Cleveland Orchestra , the San Francisco Symphony , the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra , and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra over the course of his life.