bassoon
The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges. It is composed of six pieces, and is usually made of wood. It is known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, versatility, and virtuo ...
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George Dreyfus
George Dreyfus AM (born 22 July 1928) is an Australian contemporary classical, film and television composer.
Early life and orchestral career
Dreyfus was born to a Jewish family in Elberfeld, Wuppertal, Germany. He was the younger of two sons ...
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Lyndon Watts
Lyndon Jeffrey Frank Watts (born 19 January 1976) is an Australian bassoonist. He is principal bassoonist of the Münchner Philharmoniker and an academic teacher.
Professional career
Watts studied the bassoon from 1988 and completed his senio ...
Milan Turković Milan Turković may refer to:
* Milan Turković (businessperson) (1857–1937), Croatian businessman and nobleman
* Milan Turković (musician) (born 1939), Austrian-Croatian classical bassoonist and conductor
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Bill Douglas
William Gerald Douglas (17 April 1934 – 18 June 1991) was a Scottish film director best known for the trilogy of films about his early life.
Biography
Born in Newcraighall on the outskirts of Edinburgh, he was brought up initially by his m ...
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Pierre Mercure
Pierre Mercure (21 February 1927 – 29 January 1966) was a Québécois composer, TV producer, bassoonist, and administrator.
Mercure was born in Montreal. As a student at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, he earned ho ...
(1927-1966)
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George Zukerman
George Benedict Zukerman, (February 22, 1927 – February 1, 2023) was a Canadian bassoonist and impresario. He was the youngest brother of musicologist, Joseph Kerman. As of 2019, he lived with his partner, violinist and teacher, Erika Bennedik, ...
Czechia
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Antoine Bullant
Antoine Bullant, also Anton Bullandt (russian: Антон Булландт or Антуан Бюлан, 9 February 1751 in Mělník, Bohemia – 25 S 13June 1821 St Petersburg) was a Czech musician ( bassoon player) and opera composer that ...
Peter Bastian
Peter Bastian (25 August 1943 in Copenhagen – 27 March 2017) was a Danish musician. He was educated in theoretical physics and classical bassoon. He was a member of The Danish Wind Quintet ( Den Danske Blæserkvintet) and the Danish band B ...
Martin Kuuskmann
Martin Kuuskmann (born 21 April 1971) is an Estonian bassoon player.
Biography
Martin Kuuskmann was born in Tallinn, Estonia. He studied bassoon in Tallinn Music High School, Manhattan School of Music and Yale School of Music. His mentors ...
France
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Maurice Allard
Maurice Allard (January 2, 1922 – September 14, 1988) was a Canadian politician, as well as a law professor and a lawyer. He was elected in 1958 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party representing the riding of Sherbrooke. He ran a ...
François Devienne
François Devienne (; 31 January 1759 – 5 September 1803) was a French composer and professor for flute at the Paris Conservatory.
Career
Devienne was born in Joinville, as the youngest of fourteen children of a saddlemaker. After receiving h ...
(1759-1803)
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Désiré Dihau
Désiré Dihau (2 August 1833 – 20 August 1909) was a French bassoonist and composer. He was the bassoonist painted by Edgar Degas in ' with the cellist Louis-Marie Pilet seated behind him.
Biography
Désiré Hippolyte Dihau was born 2 Au ...
(1833-1909)
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François-René Gebauer François-René Gebauer (15 March 1773, Versailles, France – 28 July 1845, Paris) was a French composer, professor, and bassoonist and the son of a German military musician. He had four brothers, Michel-Joseph Gebauer (1763–1812), Pierre-Paul G ...
(1773-1845)
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Eugène Louis-Marie Jancourt Eugène Louis-Marie Jancourt (15 December 1815 – 29 January 1901) was a French bassoonist, composer, and pedagogue. A virtuoso bassoonist and teacher at the Paris Conservatoire, Jancourt is mostly known for his method books and the system innova ...
(1815-1901)
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Fernand Oubradous
Fernand Oubradous (12 February 1903 – 6 January 1986) was a French bassoonist, conductor and composer. Born in Paris, he studied in his native city with André Bloch André Bloch may refer to:
*André Bloch (composer) (1873–1960), French comp ...
(1903-1986)
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Étienne Ozi
Étienne Ozi (9 December 1754 – 5 October 1813) was a French bassoonist and composer. He is known for his concertos, symphonies concertantes, and pedagogical pieces. His works were influential in the development of the bassoon and remain a stapl ...
(1754-1813)
Germany
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Carl Almenräder
Carl Almenräder (3 October 1786 – 14 September 1843) was a German bassoonist, inventor and composer.
The design of the modern bassoon owes a great deal to Almenräder, who, assisted by the German acoustics researcher Gottfried Weber developed ...
(1786-1846)
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Marc Engelhardt Marc Engelhardt is a German bassoonist.
From 1976 to 1982, he studied with Prof. Günter Pfitzenmaier in Cologne and from 1982 to 1986, with Prof. Klaus Thunemann in Hannover. Engelhardt is an alumnus of the German National Youth Orchestra and the ...
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Albrecht Holder Albrecht Holder (born 24 August 1958) is a leading German classical bassoonist.
Life
Born in Reutlingen, Germany, Holder initially studied singing with Siegfried Jerusalem, and then at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart with Herrmann Herder and at the R ...
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Klaus Thunemann
Klaus Thunemann (born 19 April 1937) is a German bassoonist, considered "one of the finest bassoonists of his generation".
Biography
Klaus Thunemann was born in Magdeburg on 19 April 1937. He originally studied piano but from the age of 18 foc ...
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Julius Weissenborn
Christian Julius Weissenborn (April 13, 1837 – April 21, 1888) was a German bassoonist, teacher and composer.
Biography
Weissenborn was born in Friedrichs-Tanneck near Eisenberg, Thuringia. He was principal bassoonist of the Leipzig Gewandhau ...
(1837-1888)
Iran
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Alireza Motevaseli
Alireza Motevaseli (Persian علیرضا متوسلی born 9 February 1992) is an Iranian musician.
Early life
He was born in Tehran, Iran and earned a Music M.A. from the Art University of Tehran as well as a B.A Orchestral conducting. He ...
Uzi Shalev
Uzi Shalev (born July 3, 1961) is an Israeli bassoonist.
Since 1987 he is assistant principal bassoonist with Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO).
Early life
On July 3, 1961, Shalev was born as Uzi Shalev in Kibbutz Ein-Dor, Israel. Son of Rafi ...
Italy
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Raimondo Inconis
Raimondo Inconis (born Mars 27, 1959 in San Gavino Monreale, Sardinia) is an Italian bassoonist, contrabassoonist and Professor of Bassoon. He is widely regarded as one of the preeminent contrabassoon players and pedagogues of the 20th and early- ...
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Enzo Muccetti Enzo Muccetti (born 29 June 1912 in Corfinio; died 24 March 1977 in Parma) was a great Italian bassoonist and pedagogue. He studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin, originally with the intention of learning the cello but shifting to the ...
(1912-1977)
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Sergio Azzolini
Sergio Azzolini (born 1967, in Bolzano) is an Italian bassoonist and music conductor.
Early life
Azzolini was born in Bolzano, Italy in 1967 and learned bassoon after his mother suggested being a musician would provide a long term job for him.
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Rino Vernizzi
Rino Vernizzi (15 November 1946 – 16 June 2022) was an Italian bassoonist.
Biography
Rino Vernizzi was born in Mezzano Inferiore, Italy. He graduated in bassoon at Parma Conservatory with Enzo Muccetti in 1967, then later gave himself up to ...
Peter Musson
International bassoonist and bassoon teacherPeter Musson
Born Auckland 21st May 1940
Died Brisbane 8th April 2022
was a principal Bassoonist in the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Senior Lecturer in Bassoon at the Queensland Conservatorium and ...
Gustavo Núñez
Gustavo Núñez (born in Montevideo, February 15, 1965) is a Uruguayan bassoonist trained at Musikhochschule Hannover (Prof. Klaus Thunemann) and the Royal College of Music (Kerry Camden). He has served as principal bassoon of the Royal Conce ...
United Kingdom
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Meyrick Alexander
Meyrick Alexander (born 18 May 1952) is an English bassoonist. He is one of the UK's best known bassoonists and bassoon teachers.
As a performer, Alexander was Principal Bassoon of the Philharmonia Orchestra for 30 years, and currently plays p ...
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Roger Birnstingl
Roger Birnstingl is a British classical bassoonist. He started playing the bassoon at age 14, Educated at Bedales School and later studied with Archie Camden at the Royal College of Music in London. He has served as principal bassoonist of the ...
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Gwydion Brooke
Gwydion Brooke (16 February 191227 March 2005) was the principal bassoonist of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a member of its "Royal Family" of wind instrumentalists, along with Jack Brymer (clarinet), Terence MacDonagh (oboe), and Gerald ...
(1912-2005)
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Archie Camden
Archie Camden (9 March 1888 – 16 February 1979) was a British bassoonist; he was a pedagogue and soloist of international acclaim. His career began in 1906 when he joined the Hallé Orchestra, where he became principal bassoonist in 1914. I ...
Margaret Cookhorn
Margaret Cookhorn is a British classical contrabassoonist and bassoonist. She is Principal Contrabassoon and Bassoon with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, bassoonist with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
and, notably, has pursu ...
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Lindsay Cooper
Lindsay Cooper (3 March 1951 – 18 September 2013) was an English bassoon and oboe player and composer. Best known for her work with the band Henry Cow, she was also a member of Comus, National Health, News from Babel and David Thomas and the ...
(1951-2013)
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Charles Cracknell
Charles W. P. Cracknell MBE (13 September 1915 – 1 May 1997) was a British classical bassoonist and pedagogue.Obituaries: Charles WP Cracknell, William S. Buzzard, Wilbur H. Simpson (1997). Journal of the International Double Reed Society, ...
(1915-1997)
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Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestr ...
(1857-1934)
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Vernon Elliott
Vernon Pelling Elliott (27 July 1912 – 12 October 1996) was a British bassoonist, conductor and composer.
Born into a musical family in 1912, Elliott took up the bassoon at a very early age. From then on he had an eventful, busy and very musica ...
(1912-1996)
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Martin Gatt
Martin Gatt (born 1937 in Aberdeen) is a British Classical music, classical bassoonist. He studied under Archie Camden at the Royal College of Music in London. He served as principal bassoonist of the London Philharmonic Orchestra from 1958 to 1 ...
John Hebden
John Hebden (1712–1765) was a composer and musician in 18th century Great Britain.
Little is known of Hebden's life. He was baptized on 21 July 1712 at Spofforth, near Harrogate in Yorkshire, the son of 'John Hebdin' of Plompton. He was o ...
(1712-1765)
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Cecil James
Cecil Edwin James (10 April 1913 – 13 January 1999) was a prominent English bassoonist born in London to a musical family. His father Wilfred (1878-1941) was a bassoonist in the Queen's Hall Orchestra and professor at the Royal College of Music ...
(1913-1999)
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Ursula Leveaux
Ursula Leveaux is an English classical bassoonist. She is Principal Bassoon with the City of London Sinfonia and the Academy of Ancient Music; and is currently the bassoonist of the Nash Ensemble. Leveaux was Principal Bassooon with the Scott ...
David Munrow
David John Munrow (12 August 194215 May 1976) was a British musician and early music historian.
Early life and education
Munrow was born in Birmingham where both his parents taught at the University of Birmingham. His mother, Hilda Ivy (né ...
Laurence Perkins
Laurence Perkins (born 1954) is a British classical bassoonist. He studied under Charles Cracknell at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Perkins was principal bassoonist of the Manchester Camerata
The Manchester Camerata ...
Hannah Rankin
Hannah Rankin (born 21 July 1990) is a Scottish professional boxer and bassoonist. She has held the WBA female super-welterweight title since November 2021. She has also held the IBO title in 2019 and challenged for the WBA female super-midd ...
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Graham Sheen
Graham Sheen AGSM (born 1952) is a British bassoonist, teacher, composer and arranger. He is principal bassoonist of both the BBC Symphony Orchestra (since 1983) and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (since 1976). From 1979 he has been prof ...
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Philip Turbett
Philip Turbett (born 15 June 1961 in Omagh, Northern Ireland) is a British bassoonist and clarinettist also specialising in historically informed performance.
Orchestral career
Turbett has been a bassoonist with Orchestra of the Age of Enlighte ...
Karen Borca
Karen Borca (born September 5, 1948 in Green Bay, Wisconsin) is an American avant-garde jazz and free jazz bassoonist.
Early life and education
Borca studied music at the University of Wisconsin with John Barrows and Arthur Weisberg, gradua ...
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Garvin Bushell
Garvin Bushell ''(né'' Garvin Lamont Payne; September 25, 1902 – October 31, 1991) was an American woodwind multi-instrumentalist.
Biography
Bushell was born in Springfield, Ohio, to Alexander Payne, Jr. (1875–1908) and Effie Penn ''( ...
(1902-1991)
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Lewis Hugh Cooper
Lewis Hugh Cooper (December 31, 1920 – April 26, 2007) was professor of bassoon at the University of Michigan School of Music (now School of Music, Theatre & Dance) for 52 years, beginning in 1945 when he joined the Detroit Symphony as second ba ...
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Willard Somers Elliot Willard Somers Elliot (18 July 1926 in Fort Worth, Texas – 7 June 2000 in Fort Worth, Texas) was an American bassoonist and composer. He was the bassoonist with the Houston Symphony Orchestra (1946–1949), bassoonist with the Dallas Symphon ...
Arthur Grossman
Arthur Grossman is an American bassoonist and professor of music.
Education
His primary teacher was Sol Schoenbach of the Curtis Institute of Music and he took chamber music classes with Marcel Tabuteau.
Career
He served as principal bas ...
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Paul Hanson
Paul Hanson is an American bassoonist, saxophonist, duduk player, and composer with roots in jazz and classical music.
Music career
Paul Hanson was born in San Francisco, CA, in 1961. His parents were both musicians: his mother a classical pi ...
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K. David van Hoesen
Karl David van Hoesen (1926 – October 3, 2016) was former principal bassoonist of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and Professor emeritus of the University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music as chair of the Wind, Brass and Percussion D ...
Simon Kovar
Simon Kovar (May 15, 1890 – January 17, 1970) was a 20th-century bassoonist and one of the most renowned teachers of the instrument.
Simon Kovar was born Simon Kovarski in Vilnius, Russian Empire, in 1890. He took up the bassoon at age 20 afte ...
(1890-1970)
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Judith LeClair
Judith LeClair (born 1958), from Newark, Delaware, is an American bassoonist.
She has been the principal bassoon in the New York Philharmonic since 1981 and on the faculty at the Juilliard School since 1985. LeClair began studying the instrument ...
Stephen Maxym Stephen Maxym (July 17, 1915 – October 12, 2002) was an American bassoonist.
Born in New York City, he attended the Institute of Musical Arts (now The Juilliard School) before Joining the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as Principal Bassoon under ...
Ray Pizzi
Raymond Michael Pizzi (January 19, 1943 – September 2, 2021), nicknamed Pizza Man, was an American jazz saxophonist, bassoonist, and flautist.
Early life
Pizzi's first instrument was clarinet. He attended the Boston Conservatory and Berklee C ...
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Johnny Reinhard Johnny Reinhard (born 1956) is a microtonal composer, bassoonist, author and conductor.
Reinhard employs many avant-garde techniques in his bassoon performance such as glissando and multiphonics, as well as uses just intonation and other microtona ...
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Peter Schickele
"Professor" Peter Schickele (; born July 17, 1935) is an American composer, musical educator, and parody, parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring his music, but which he presents as being composed by the fictional P. D. Q. Bach. He also ...
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Sol Schoenbach
Sol Schoenbach ''(né'' Sol Israel Schoenbach; 1915 – 25 February 1999) was an American bassoonist and teacher.
Career
Schoenbach was a student of the distinguished bassoonist Simon Kovar. He studied at the New York University, and held h ...
(1915-1999)
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Leonard Sharrow
Leonard Sharrow (August 4, 1915 – August 9, 2004) was one of the foremost American bassoonists of the 20th Century. Born in New York City, he joined the NBC Symphony Orchestra when it was first organized, eventually becoming principal bassoonist ...
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Wilbur Simpson
Wilbur H. Simpson (December 6, 1917 in Angola, Indiana – June 17, 1997 in Platte Lake, Michigan) was an American classical bassoonist and pedagogue.
At Northwestern University, he studied with Hugo Fox, principal bassoonist of the Chicago ...
(1917-1997)
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Eric Stomberg
The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization).
The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* ain ...
Sherman Walt
Sherman Abbot Walt (August 22, 1923 – October 26, 1989) was one of the foremost American bassoonists of the 20th century. Born in Virginia, Minnesota, he served in the U.S. Army in World War II, winning a Bronze Star; after his discharge from the ...
(1923-1989)
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Arthur Weisberg
Arthur Weisberg (April 4, 1931 – January 17, 2009) was an American clarinetist, bassoonist, conductor, composer and author.
Biography
Weisberg was born in New York City. He attended The High School of Music & Art, majoring in bassoon and s ...
(1931-2009)
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Dan Welcher
Dan Welcher (born March 2, 1948)Joshua Kosman, "Welcher, Dan (Edward)", ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001)Nicolas Slonimsky, Laura Kuh ...
Victor Guillermo Ramos Rangel
Victor Guillermo Ramos Rangel (February 10, 1911, Cúa, Miranda state, Venezuela – December 10, 1986, Caracas) was a Venezuelan classical musician.
Started his career in the Caracas Musical Declamation Academy (nowadays renamed in honor to Jos ...
Bassoon
The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges. It is composed of six pieces, and is usually made of wood. It is known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, versatility, and virtuo ...