List of oboists

Two musette players from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, 13th century

An oboist (formerly hautboist) is a musician who plays the oboe or any oboe family instrument, including the cor anglais, oboe d'amore, shawm and oboe musette.

The following is a list of notable past and present professional oboists, with indications when they were/are known better for other professions in their own time. Oboists with an asterisk (*) have biographies in the online version of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Historical oboists

Baroque period 1600-1760

"Danse des Nymphes" tapestry detail - Gobelins manufactory, 1687

Classical period 1730-1820

Portrait of an unknown oboist by anonymous painter, 1st half 18th century

Romantic period 1815-1910

Johann Friedrich Diethe (1810-1891), oboist of the Gewandhausorchester by C. Reimers

20th Century oboists

Marcel Tabuteau in 1915

A-L

M-Z

20th Century players of the English horn

Contemporary classical oboists

A-B

C-E

F-H

I-L

M-Q

R-S

T-Z

Contemporary oboists best known for playing English horn (cor anglais) or oboe d'amore

Anonymous player of the English horn (cor anglais)

Contemporary oboists best known for playing period instruments

Oboists performing primarily outside classical genres

As primary instrument

As secondary instrument

Shehnai players

References

  1. p. 6
  2. Burgess, p. 91
  3. Burgess, p. 99
  4. Burgess, p. 176-9
  5. Burgess, p.153
  6. fr:Georges Gillet
  7. Burgess, p. 162-165
  8. Philip Bale, The Oboe: An Outline of Its History, Development, and Construction, W.W. Norton, 1975, ISBN 0510362508, pp. 80, 201
  9. Burgess, p. 188,194,202,348
  10. Burgess, p. 202
  11. Hans-Rainer Jung, Claudius Böhm: Das Gewandhaus-Orchester. Seine Mitglieder und seine Geschichte seit 1743. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-936618-86-0, pg. 244.
  12. Burgess, p. 175-6
  13. David Ledet, Oboe reed styles: theory and practice, Indiana University Press, 1981, pp.63-4
  14. Burgess, p. 202
  15. http://www.esm.rochester.edu/about/portraits/sprenkle/

Further reading

External links

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