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Spouse (s) 3rd wife, Jeanne, Lady Galway (née Cinnante) 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.
William Bennett (flautist) William Ingham Brooke Bennett OBE (7 February 1936 – 11 May 2022) was a British flautist and teacher. He played in many English orchestras and chamber music ensembles, and as a soloist. He made more than 100 recordings, including chamber music with partners including George Malcolm, Osian Ellis, and Yehudi Menuhin.
Formerly of. London Philharmonic Orchestra. Geoffrey Winzer Gilbert (28 May 1914 – 1989) was an English flautist, who was a leading influence on British flute-playing, introducing a more flexible style, based on French techniques, with metal instruments replacing the traditional wood. He was a prominent member of five British symphony ...
This is a list of flute players, organized alphabetically by the musical genre in which they are best known, and whose notability is established by reliable sources in other Wikipedia articles. Young Flutist, or The Fifer by Édouard Manet (1866)
Born on 24 September 1945 [1] in London, the son of an industrial chemist and his wife, Rutter grew up living over the Globe pub on London's Marylebone Road. [2] He was educated at Highgate School, where fellow pupils included John Tavener, Howard Shelley, Brian Chapple and Nicholas Snowman. [3] As a chorister there, Rutter took part in the ...
A major venue for classical and other forms of music. Classical music of the United Kingdom is taken in this article to mean classical music in the sense elsewhere defined, of formally composed and written music of chamber, concert and church type as distinct from popular, traditional, or folk music. The term in this sense emerged in the early ...
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera Peter Grimes (1945), the War ...
Andante in C major for Flute and Orchestra, K. 315 (1778) Carl Maria von Weber: Romanza siciliana for flute and orchestra in G minor, J. 47 (1805) [3] Camille Saint-Saëns: Romance for flute and orchestra in D-flat major, Op. 37 (1871) Odelette for flute and orchestra in D major, Op. 162 (1920) [4]