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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.
Johann Christian Fischer (c. 1733 – 29 April 1800) was a German composer and oboist, one of the best-known oboe soloists in Europe during the 1770s. [ 3 ] Employed as a music copyist and theatre director for the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at Ludwigslust , Fischer is now credited with the unique Symphony with Eight Obbligato Timpani ...
In 1984, he was awarded the first solo oboe at the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. He is also a prizewinner of the International Competitions of Geneva (1982) and Prague (1986). In 1988, after assuming the post of assistant in Maurice Bourgue 's class at the CNSM de Paris , he replaced him as a full professor when the former left for ...
Music for Oboe, 1650–1800: a Bibliography (Berkeley, 1985, 2/1992) Lully and the Rise of the Oboe as seen in Works of Art, EMc, xvi (1988), 324–38; Pitch Standards in the Baroque and Classical Periods (diss., U. of Montreal, 1995) A History of Performing Pitch: The Story of A (Scarecrow Press, 2002) ISBN 0-8108-4185-1
The design of the Wiener oboe retains the essential bore and tonal characteristics of the historical oboe. The Wiener oboe is named after its origins in Vienna (German: Wien) and, besides the more common Conservatoire oboe, is the only other type of modern oboe in use today.
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.
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.
Schumann: Romances (3) for oboe (or violin or viola) & piano, Op. 94; Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Duet for 2 flutes No 4 in F major, F 57; Makoto Shinohara: Obsession for oboe & piano; In 2003, he recorded the Bach Concerto for oboe and violin with Hilary Hahn and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra under Music Director Jeffrey Kahane for Deutsche ...