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Abdullah Ibrahim aka 'Dollar Brand' is one of the true jazz greats. His cycle 'African Songs' celebrates the unmistakable atmosphere and cheerfulness of African music. This arrangement for flute and p...

In the 19th Century nationalist themes came into fashion. Composers drew on songs and dances from their native lands, working them into paraphrased adaptations, pot pourri arrangements and sets of var...

Joseph Haydn wrote the Symphony Hob. I:24 in D major in 1764, when he was Vice-Kapellmeister in the service of Prince Nicholas I Esterházy and before he was appointed First Kapellmeister in 1766. In t...

Gottlieb Heinrich Köhler was born in Dresden. After his apprenticeship with the Stadtmusikus of Bautzen, he worked as a flute and piano teacher in his hometown before finding employment as an 'art vio...

Jean-Louis Tulou, a pupil of Johann Georg Wunderlich, was one of the leading flutists of his time as a soloist at the opera of his native Paris and a professeur at the Conservatoire. His students incl...

A student of Antonin Reicha at the Paris Conservatoire, Eugène Walckiers, a native of the French part of Flanders, ranks among illustrious French composers: Hector Berlioz, Charles Gounod or César Fra...

Theobald Böhm became the first flutist of the royal Isartortheater in 1816, two years later a member of the royal court orchestra of his native Munich and from 1830 also its first flutist. Concert tou...