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Sir James Galway OBE (born 8 December 1939) is an Irish [1] [2] virtuoso flute player from Belfast, nicknamed "The Man with the Golden Flute". [3] After several years working as an orchestral musician, he established an international career as a solo flute player.
Aurèle Nicolet (22 January 1926 – 29 January 2016) was a Swiss flautist.He was considered one of the world's best flute players of the late twentieth century. He performed in various international concerts.
Herbie Mann was born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, to Jewish parents Harry C. Solomon (May 30, 1902 – May 31, 1980), who was of Russian descent, and Ruth Rose Solomon (née Brecher) (July 4, 1905 – November 11, 2004), of Romanian descent who was born in Bukovina, Austria-Hungary but immigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 6.
Taffanel came at a crucial moment in the flute's history, after Theobald Boehm had completely remodeled the instrument. He proved the flute fully capable of elegance and extreme expressiveness. At the same time, the credo later advocated by the French Flute School that tone quality was more important than loudness did not always hold true for ...
Doriot Anthony Dwyer (/ ˈ d ɔːr i oʊ /; [1] March 6, 1922 – March 14, 2020) was an American flutist.She was one of the first women to be awarded principal chair for a major U.S. orchestra (following hornist Helen Kotas, who was appointed principal horn of the Chicago Symphony in 1941 [2]).
Musicians who play the flute. Please add individual names to the appropriate Subcategories , not directly to Category:Flautists. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Flutists .
Thomas Daniel Nyfenger (October 6, 1936 – June 12, 1990) was an American flutist and teacher known for his "intense and caring emotion for the flute" [1] and described as “a thorough professional who programs interesting music and is not above having a good time while playing it.” [2] He taught at the Yale School of Music, played piccolo for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and held ...