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Taffanel : genius of the flute / Edward Blakeman. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blakeman, Edward, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Flute players--France--Biography.
- Flute players.
- Taffanel, Claude Paul, 1844-1908.
- Taffanel, Claude Paul.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 322 pages): illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Paul Taffanel (1844-1908) is the father of modern flute playing. Drawing on previously unavailable material from a private archive in Paris, Blakeman describes & evaluates Taffanel's life, career & works.
- Contents:
- Early life
- The conservatoire and after
- Advances and retreats
- New beginnings
- Composing for the flute
- The wind society
- The magic flute
- From Russia to the Paris exhibition
- Towards a new career
- Wielding the baton
- Teaching the flute
- Last words on the flute.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2005.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages295-308) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772925-8
- OCLC:
- 1406782211
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