Famous flute player biography examples
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I was brought up in a household where it was mandatory to take the piano. I studied it for seven years starting at age six. At age 10 I found out that you could take the flute in school and get out of class; so the flute it was! I entered the High School of Music and Art in 1969, majoring in the flute. There I met and played with, Noel Pointer, Nat Adderly Jr., Dave Valentín, Earl Macintyre, Buddy Williams, among many other fantastic musicians. Noel was instrumental (no pun intended) in teaching me how to write music down. I had a term paper I had to do for a Bible class and I waited until the last minute to do it. Finally I chose an excerpt from the Rose of Sharon, and wrote music to the spoken word. Noel played the violin, I played the flute, and Michael Klein (now a renowned poet) played the piano and recited the text. The teacher liked it so much that we performed it on one of the first cable TV channels as a plug to save the funding for Music and Art, as they wanted to do away
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Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773)
Biography
Quantz was one of the first professional flute players in 18th-century Europe. He began as a town musician, trained to play all instruments, but after gaining a post as an oboist in the presitgious tysk stad court ensemble, he began to specialise in the flute in 1719. he traveled to Italy, France, and England to broaden his musical education, then returned to Dresden. In 1741 he entered the service of Frederick the Great of Prussia, where he remained until his death, composing, performing, and making flutes for the king. His Essay on flute-playing (1752) made his famous throughout Europe and attracted pupils who formed a "school" of flute-playing which remained influential for another hundred years.
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The Essay
Quantz's Essay of 1752 is less a tutor for the flute than a compendium covering musical taste and execution on all sorts of instruments. Because of this broad scope it became and has remained the most wide
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Pannalal Ghosh
Indian flute player and composer
Musical artist
Pandit Pannalal Ghosh (Bengali: পান্নালাল ঘোষ; 24 July 1911 – 20 April 1960), also known as Amal Jyoti Ghosh, was an Indian flute (bansuri) player and composer. He was a disciple of Allauddin Khan, and is credited with popularizing the flute as a concert instrument in Hindustani classical music and also the "Pioneer of Indian Classical Flute".[1][2]
Early life
[edit]Pannalal Ghosh was born on 24 July 1911 in Barisal, Bengal Presidency, British India. He was named Amal Jyoti Ghosh with Pannalal having been his nickname.[3][self-published source?] His father, Akshay Kumar Ghosh, was a sitarist.[4] Ghosh received his initial training in music from his father, learning to play the sitar. Two apocryphal incidents in his childhood are believed to have influenced Ghosh in taking up the flute.[3] As a child he had picked up a small flute that cowherds usual