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This is a list of notable flute players, organized alphabetically by the musical genre in which they are best known. Western Classical. Richard Adeney; Egidius Aerts;
Marcel Moyse ([mÉ”iz]; [1] May 17, 1889, in St. Amour, France – November 1, 1984, in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States) was a French flautist.Moyse studied at the Paris Conservatory and was a student of Philippe Gaubert, Adolphe Hennebains, and Paul Taffanel; all of whom were flute virtuosos in their time. [2]
Ceri Rhys Matthews – a multi-instrumentalist, plays the pibgorn or Welsh bagpipes, wooden flute, and others Fernhill – a folk band, that features Ceri Rhys Matthews and often employs the pibgorn Carreg Lafar – a traditional Welsh folk group, featuring Antwn Owen Hicks, Linda Owen Jones, Rhian Evan Jones, James Rourke and Danny Kilbride
His output comprises approximately 300 instrumental works that are mostly written for wind instruments.There are a dozen flute concertos (plus two posthumously published works, one of them a flute arrangement of G. B. Viotti's violin concerto No 23), sinfonias for woodwinds, quartets and trios for different ensembles, 12 operas, 5 bassoon concertos, 6 bassoon sonatas and 6 oboe sonatas (Opp ...
Louis Fleury (24 May 1878 – 10 June 1926) was a French flautist, a student and colleague of Paul Taffanel, a writer who advocated for the revival of Baroque music, and a musician who promoted contemporary composers by commissioning and performing their work.
Galway was born in North Belfast as one of two brothers. His father, who played the flute, was employed at the Harland & Wolff shipyard until the end of the Second World War and spent night-shifts cleaning buses after the war, while his mother, a pianist, was a winder in a flax-spinning mill.
Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble supports the renewal of Baroque music in France and more generally the use of period instruments and period style. The projet des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble proposes a progressive and lyrical re-evaluation, from baroque music to modern music, and programming certain works which have been neglected for ...
In addition to his teaching duties, Taffanel became an important opera and orchestra conductor, serving from 1890 to 1906 as chief conductor at both the Paris Opéra and the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire. Previously these positions had been awarded to string players; Taffanel was the first flautist to hold them.