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James Mathews was an amateur flute player who has enjoyed some degree of notoriety as the owner of a remarkable gold flute named Chrysoston (greek: golden-mouthed*). Mathews (or Matthews) was a very accomplished flautist and highly popular with audiences in the Midlands of England, during the latter part of the…
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Halfdan Kjerulf was the composer who inspired me to become involved in the world of research. In 1999, I had come across his piano pieces in a volume of my grand-mother's piano music and instantly was engaged by its quality, so much that I felt I needed to discover more…
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Similarities and influences with Liszt: In 1871, Giovanni Sgambati wrote of his relationship with Franz Liszt ‘we became very close.’ So, as Liszt had many talented pupils, I was interested to look more closely at their relationship and to explore the reasons why, of all his students, Sgambati should have been…
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I believe this article constitutes the most that is known about J.G. Graeff, at the time of writing.When Napoleon and his forces attacked the German town of Mainz in 1793, flautist J G Graeff fled his home and escaped by swimming across the river Main with his father’s portrait tucked…
Read more...![Louis Drouet [1792 - 1873] flautist & composer](http://cdn.ecommercedns.uk/files/6/233466/2/8814032/louis-drouet-par-nelson-mulnier.jpg)
Drouet was just 16 years old when he was appointed ‘Solo Flute’ for the King of Holland. Subsequently he was made First Flute to Napoleon 1st and Chapel master to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg. Drouet also spent significant time in London where he performed often and also set up a…
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The photograph is entitled F. Sabathil 1. Floetist der Hofkapelle in Schwerin. It shows a small, middle-aged man of light build holding a flute. His face is turned towards the camera and dark eyes stare uncompromisingly from behind a pair of spectacles. The gravity of his expression is emphasised by…
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With so much technology available, is arranging still a skilled art form?If you fancy doing some arranging, you can switch on a computer today and be presented with a huge panoply of tools to assist you from simple play-in/play-back software to elaborate Band-in-a-Box automatic transcriptions. No more late night sessions…
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What a long name Bruneau has! His studies in music started so that he could take part in chamber music with his parents and he learnt 'cello. However by the age of 15 he had progressed so well, that he went on to study at the Paris Conservatoire, where he…
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Possibly, if you are a German flute player you are entirely familiar with the name Rudolf Tillmetz. However if, like me, you are British, it’s less likely that this influential flute player will be known to you.As a young student in the late 1960’s, I listened to my teacher’s careful…
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Sir George Alexander Macfarren (1813 - 1887) ‘saved the life of the Institution [Royal Academy of Music in London] and …. left the school in a far better position, in all respects, than he found it.’ [1] For this and his other contributions to music in England – as a…
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