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The Flute-Player (Gollancz, 1979) is a fiction book by British novelist, poet, playwright and translator Donald Michael Thomas, known as D. M. Thomas. Thomas considers the book to be one of his six strongest novels. [1] It was Thomas's first novel to be published, though it was the second he had written. [2]
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;
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, flutes are edge-blown aerophones. [1]
All three of Vaucanson's Automata: the Flute Player, the Digesting Duck, and the Tambourine Player. At just 18 years of age, Vaucanson was given his own workshop in Lyon, and a grant from a nobleman to construct a set of machines. In that same year of 1727, there was a visit from one of the governing heads of Les Minimes. Vaucanson decided to ...
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.
To illustrate his article “Android», the Encyclopédie gives an extremely detailed description in 1751, largely taken from the memoir of 1738. [5] The flutist, approximately 1.60 metres (63 in) high, resting on a 1.45 metres (57 in) pedestal hiding the mechanism, was a slightly reduced imitation of the Coysevox faun, dressed in savage clothing.
Charles Nicholson (1795–1837), was a Liverpool-born flautist and composer, who performed regularly in London.He was soloist at many of the Philharmonic Society Concerts from 1816-1836, and first flautist with the principal theater orchestras.
Portrait of a Young Flautist or The Flute Player is an oil on canvas painting by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, created c. 1540, now in the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo in Brescia. [1] The work was first recorded in the 19th century, at which time it was in Lord Anherest's collection in Sevenoaks. It was first exhibited in London in 1894.