An oboist (formerly hautboist) is a

musician A musician is a person who composes, conducts, or performs music. According to the United States Employment Service, "musician" is a general term used to designate one who follows music as a profession. Musicians include songwriters who wri ...

who plays the

oboe The oboe ( ) is a type of double reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common oboe plays in the treble or soprano range. A ...

or any oboe family instrument, including the

oboe d'amore The oboe d'amore (; Italian for "oboe of love"), less commonly , is a double reed woodwind musical instrument in the oboe family. Slightly larger than the oboe, it has a less assertive and a more tranquil and serene tone, and is considered the me ...

cor anglais The cor anglais (, or original ; plural: ''cors anglais''), or English horn in North America, is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately one and a half times the length of an oboe, making it essentially an alto ...

English horn The cor anglais (, or original ; plural: ''cors anglais''), or English horn in North America, is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately one and a half times the length of an oboe, making it essentially an alto ...

bass oboe The bass oboe or baritone oboe is a double reed instrument in the woodwind family. It is essentially twice the size of a regular (soprano) oboe so it sounds an octave lower; it has a deep, full tone somewhat akin to that of its higher-pitched cou ...

and

piccolo oboe The piccolo oboe, also known as the piccoloboe and historically called an oboe musette (or just musette), is the smallest and highest pitched member of the oboe family. Pitched in E or F above the regular oboe (i.e. notated a minor third or perfect ...

oboe musette The piccolo oboe, also known as the piccoloboe and historically called an oboe musette (or just musette), is the smallest and highest pitched member of the oboe family. Pitched in E or F above the regular oboe (i.e. notated a minor third or perfect ...

. 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 ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and theo ...

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Historical oboists

Baroque period 1600–1760

Francesco Barsanti Francesco Barsanti (1690–1775) was an Italian flautist, oboist and composer. He was born in 1690 in the Tuscan city of Lucca, but spent most of his life in London and Edinburgh. Biography Very little is known about Barsanti's background. His fa ...

(1690–1772), Italian * (composer) *

Alessandro Besozzi Alessandro Besozzi (born 22 July 1702 in Parma – died 26 July 1793 in Turin) was an Italian composer and virtuoso oboist.From a letter dated 30 July 1777 written by Quirino Gasparini, maestro di cappella of the cathedral of Turin, sent to Fath ...

(1702–1773), Italian *

Antonio Besozzi Antonio Besozzi (1714–1781) was an Italian oboist and composer and also member of an extensive family of musicians from the eighteenth-century Naples. He composed several concertos for oboe and a few quintets, which he called "sonatas", for ...

(1714–1781), Italian *

Cristoforo Besozzi Cristoforo Besozzi (1661 in Milan – 22 October 1725, in Piacenza) was an Italian oboist, bassoonist and founder of a large family of wind players very influential around Parma, Naples and Turin for more than 200 years. In 1700, he settled in Pa ...

(1661–1725), Italian *

Giuseppe Besozzi Giuseppe Besozzi (born 1686 in Milan – died 2 December 1760 in Naples) was an Italian oboist. In the eighteenth century the Besozzi family produced several important oboists who worked in Turin, Naples, London, Paris and Dresden. Giuseppe's ...

(1686–1760), Italian * Paolo Girolamo Besozzi (1713–1778), Italian *

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(Bisioli) (–1780), Italian * Esprit Philippe Chédeville (1696–1762), French * *

Nicolas Chédeville Nicolas Chédeville (20 February 1705 – 6 August 1782) was a French composer, musette player and musette maker. Biography Nicolas Chédeville was born in Serez, Normandy; musicians Pierre Chédeville (1694–1725) and Esprit Philippe Chéde ...

(1705–1782), French * * Pierre Chédeville (1694–1725), French * * André Danican Philidor (c. 1652–1730), French * (music librarian) *

Anne Danican Philidor Anne Danican Philidor (11 April 1681 – 8 October 1728) was a French woodwind player and composer of the Philidor family. Born in Paris on 11 April 1681, his grandfather and father were also professional woodwind players in the king's service. An ...

(1681–1728), French *

Jean Danican Philidor Jean Danican (D'Anican) Philidor (c. 1620 – September 8, 1679) was a court musician at Versailles during the reign of Louis XIII, and a member of the prestigious Philidor family. The name Philidor was conferred upon Jean's elder brother, Michel D ...

(–1679), French * (1580–1651), French * (1681–1731), French * John Ernest Galliard (–1747), German * *

Johann Caspar Gleditsch Johann, typically a male given name, is the German form of ''Iohannes'', which is the Latin form of the Greek name ''Iōánnēs'' (), itself derived from Hebrew name '' Yochanan'' () in turn from its extended form (), meaning "Yahweh is Gracious ...

(1684–1747), German ("Bach's oboist") *

Peter Glösch Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a su ...

(–1754), German *

Jean Hotteterre Jean Hotteterre (1677–1720) was a French composer and musician of the Hotteterre family. Hotteterre worked at the family workshop on the Rue de Harlay, Paris until his death at the court of Louis XIV of France. He and his brothers Jacques-Mart ...

(–1691), French * (instrument maker) (one of several oboists in the family) *

Martin Hotteterre Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (29 September 167316 July 1763), also known as Jacques Martin or Jacques Hotteterre, was a French composer and flautist who was the most celebrated of a family of wind instrument makers and wind performers. Biograp ...

(1635–1712), French * (instrument maker) *

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(1637–1694), French * * Johann Christian Jacobi (1719–1784), German (oboist at Janitsch's "Freitags-Akademien") *

Jean Christian Kytch Jean Christian Kytch (died 1738) was a Dutch Baroque-era oboist. Based on works he is known to have performed, it is thought that he possessed considerable technical ability on the oboe. He was known as "Handel's oboist" and Handel's use of a so ...

(died ), Dutch ("Handel's oboist") * François La Riche (1662 – after 1733), Flemish *"The Trio Sonatas of Jan Dismas Zelenka"
. ''www.idrs.org''. * Jacques Loeillet (1685–1748), Flemish * * Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (1680–1730), Flemish * *

Jacques Paisible Jacques Paisible (ca. 16561721), also known as James Peasable or James Paisible, was a French baroque composer and recorder virtuoso who lived and worked in London for about forty years. Paisible arrived in London from France in September 1673, one ...

(–1721), French (oboist in

Robert Cambert Robert Cambert (c. 1628–1677) was a French composer principally of opera. His opera '' Pomone'' was the first actual opera in French. Biography Under Mazarin Born in Paris c. 1628, he studied music under Chambonnières. His first position was ...

orchestra which moved to London in 1673) *

Joan Baptista Pla Joan Baptista Pla i Agustí (ca. 17201773) was a Spanish composer and oboist. Pla was born in Catalonia, Spain, into a Catalan family of musicians. In the years after 1751, he worked in many of the principal cities of Europe including Padua, St ...

(–1773), Spanish * *

Josep Pla Josep Pla i Casadevall (; 8 March 1897 – 23 April 1981) was a Spanish journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, England, Germany and Russia, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles in Catalan ...

(1728–1762), Spanish * *

Manuel Pla Manuel Pla i Agustí (c. 1725-1766) was a Spanish (from Catalonia) composer, oboist, and harpsichordist at the court of Madrid. He was the middle of three composer-brothers: his older brother Joan Baptista Pla (1720-1773), settled as an oboist in ...

(–1766), Spanish * *

Giovanni Benedetto Platti Giovanni Benedetto Platti (born possibly 9 July 1697 (according to other sources 1690, 1692, 1700) in Padua, belonging to Venice at the time; died 11 January 1763 in Würzburg) was an Italian Baroque composer and oboist. Life Platti studied music ...

(1697–1763), Italian * * Johann Christian Richter (1689–1744), German * Jacob Riehman (–1729), Dutch * *

Giuseppe Sammartini Giuseppe Francesco Gaspare Melchiorre Baldassare Sammartini (also Gioseffo, S Martini, St Martini, San Martini, San Martino, Martini, Martino; 6 January 1695 – between 17 and 23 November 1750) was an Italian composer and oboist during the late B ...

(1695–1750), Italian * (son of French oboist Alexis Saint-Martin) *

Georg Philipp Telemann Georg Philipp Telemann (; – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesh ...

(1681–1767), German composer (Oboe was one of over 10 instruments he played) * Roberto Valentine (1674 – ), English * (composer)

Classical period 1730–1820

* Sante Aguilar (–1808), ItalianBruce, Haynes, (1 February 1992)
"Mozart and the oboe"
* Christian Frederik Barth (1787–1861), Danish * Christian Samuel Barth (1735–1809), German * * Frederik Philip Carl August Barth (1774–1804), Danish * *

Georg Benda Georg Anton Benda ( cz, Jiří Antonín Benda, italic=no, link=no; 30 June 17226 November 1795) was a composer, violinist and Kapellmeister of the classical period from the Kingdom of Bohemia. Biography Born into a family of notable musicians ...

(1722–1795), Czech * (composer) *

Carlo Besozzi Carlo Besozzi (1738 – 22 March 1791) was an Italian oboist composer and member of an extensive family of oboists from the eighteenth-century Naples. Nephew of Gaetano Besozzi, he was employed in the orchestra of the Elector of Dresden and t ...

(1738–1791), Italian *

Francesco Besozzi Francesco Besozzi (born 1766 in Dresden – 1816 ibid) was an Italian oboist An oboist (formerly hautboist) is a musician who plays the oboe or any oboe family instrument, including the oboe d'amore, cor anglais or English horn, bass oboe ...

(1766–1816), Italian * Gaetano Besozzi (1725–1794), Italian * Girolamo Besozzi (–1788), Italian *

Friedrich Braun Friedrich Braun or Fyodor Aleksandrovich Braun (20 July 1862 – 14 June 1942) was a Russian-German scholar who provided philological and mythological backing for the Normanist theory. Braun came to study Scandinavian and Germanic epics on the adv ...

(1759–1824), German * * Franz Joseph Czerwenka (1759–1835), Czech-Austrian ("Beethoven's oboist") *

Georg Druschetzky Jiří Družecký (german: Georg Druschetzky, also known as Giorgio Druschetzky, also Druzechi, Druzecky, Druschetzki, Držecky, Truschetzki; 7 April 1745, Jemníky – 21 June 1819, Budapest) was a Czech composer, oboist, and timpanist. Life and c ...

(1745–1819), Czech * * Giuseppe Ferlendis (1755–1810), Italian * *

Josef Fiala Josef Fiala (''Joseph Fiala'') (3 February 1748 – 31 July 1816), was a Czech composer, oboist, viola da gamba virtuoso, cellist, and pedagogue of the Classical period. Life He was born in Lochovice in Bohemia and began his musical career ...

(1748–1816), Czech * ("Mozart's oboist 1") *

Johann Christian Fischer Johann Christian Fischer (c. 1733 – 29 April 1800) was a German composer and oboist, one of the best-known oboe soloists in Europe during the 1770s. Employed as a music copyist and theatre director for the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at Ludwi ...

(1733–1800), German * * Joseph François Garnier (1755–1825), French * * Michel Joseph Gebauer (1763–1812), French * *

Gottlieb Graupner __NOTOC__ Johann Christian Gottlieb Graupner (6 October 1767 – 16 April 1836) was a musician, composer, conductor, educator and publisher. Born in Hanover, Germany, he played oboe in Joseph Haydn's orchestra in London. After moving to the Unit ...

(1767–1836), German-American *

William Herschel Frederick William Herschel (; german: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-born British astronomer and composer. He frequently collaborated with his younger sister and fellow astronomer Caroline H ...

(1738–1822), German (astronomer) (before 1765 primarily oboist, only later an astronomer) * François Jadin (1731–1790), French * * Carl Khym (1770–after 1819), Czech * *

Ludwig August Lebrun Ludwig August Lebrun (baptized 2 May 1752 – 16 December 1790) was a German oboist and composer. Life Lebrun was born in Mannheim. The well-known and celebrated oboe virtuoso (a contemporary described being "charmed by his divine oboe") pl ...

(1746–1790), German * * Ignace Malzat (1757–1804), Austrian (probably wrote the "Haydn" oboe concerto) * * (–1804), Italian * * Carl Ludwig Matthes (1751–?), German *

John Parke John Grubb Parke (September 22, 1827 – December 16, 1900) was a United States Army engineer and a Union general in the American Civil War. Parke's Civil War service was closely associated with Ambrose E. Burnside, often serving him as chi ...

(1745–1829), English * *

William Thomas Parke William Thomas Parke (15 February 1761 – 26 August 1847) was an English oboist and composer. He played in notable concerts of the day; in retirement he published ''Musical Memoirs''. Life Parke began his musical studies in 1770 under his elder ...

(1762–1847), English * * Giuseppe Prota (1737–1807), Italian * *

Friedrich Ramm Friedrich Ramm (1744–1813) was a German oboist for whom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote several works. Ramm was principal oboist in the orchestra of Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria in Munich and in Mannheim, where Mozart first met him in 1777 ...

(1744–1813), German ("Mozart's oboist 2") * François Alexandre Antoine Sallantin (1755 – ), French * * Johann Friedrich Schröter (1724–1811), German * * Charles J. Suck (–), English * * Philipp Teimer (Filip Matyas Tajmar) (1767–1817), Bohemian (English horn) * Georg Triebensee (1746–1813), Bohemian * *

Josef Triebensee Josef Triebensee (Trübensee) (November 21, 1772 Třeboň - April 22, 1846 Prague) was a Bohemian composer and oboist. He studied composition with Albrechtsberger and oboe with his father, Georg Triebensee (January 28, 1746-June 14, 1813). He se ...

(1772–1846), Bohemian * (composer) * (1745–1801), Bohemian * * Thomas Vincent (1720–1783), English *

Romantic period 1815–1910

* Apollon Barret (1804–1879), French * * Christian Frederik Barth (1787–1861), Danish * * Richard Baumgärtel (1858–1941), German * Félix-Charles Berthélemy (1829–1868), French * Carl A.P. Braun (1788–1835), German * * Wilhelm Braun (1796–1867), German * *

Henri Brod Henri Brod (June 13, 1799 - April 6, 1839) was a French oboist, instrument builder and composer of the early Romantic Era. Brod was considered a virtuoso and introduced his own innovations in both oboe The oboe ( ) is a type of double reed w ...

(1799–1839), French * * Baldassare Centroni (–1860), Italian ("Rossini's oboist") * (1832–1881), French * Franz Wilhelm Ferling (1796–1874), German * (1909–1971), German *

Georges Gillet Georges-Vital-Victor Gillet (May 17, 1854 – February 8, 1920) was a French oboist, teacher and composer. In addition to premiering oboe works by prominent French composers of the 19th century, including Émile Paladilhe, Charles-Édouard Lefeb ...

(1854–1920), French * * Joseph Gungl (1810–1889), Hungarian * (conductor) *

Johann Peter Heuschkel Johann Peter Heuschkel (4 January 1773 – 5 December 1853) was a German oboist, organist, music teacher and composer. Heuschkel was born in Harras near Eisfeld. From 1792 he was oboist and later also organist in Hildburghausen. He is best remembe ...

(1773–1853), German * * Ernst Krähmer (1795–1857), German * * Olivo Krause (1857–1927), Danish * Desiré Alfred Lalande (1866–1904), French * * Antoine Joseph Lavigne (1816–1886), French * Johann Heinrich Luft (1813–1877), German * William Malsch (1855–1924), English * *

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(1806–1887), Italian * *

Antonio Pasculli Antonio Pasculli (13 October 1842 – 23 February 1924) was an Italian oboist and composer, known as "the Paganini of the oboe". Biography Pasculli was born in Palermo, Sicily on 13 October 1842. He lived there his whole life but travel ...

(1842–1924), Italian * (the "Paganini of the oboe") * Charles Reynolds (1843–1916), English * Friedrich Ruthardt (1800–1862), German *

Adolf Rzepko Adolf Rzepko (1825 – 1892) was a Polish composer, oboist, choral and orchestral conductor, and pianist. He was a disciple of Václav Tomášek. He was mainly active as a performer (he served for many years as the Wielki Theatre orchestra's pri ...

(1825–1892), Polish * * Joseph Sellner (1787–1843), Austrian * Pedro Soler (1810–1850), Spanish * Friedrich-Eugen Thurner (1785–1827), German *

Charles Triébert Charles Louis Triébert (31 October 1810 – 18 July 1867) was a French oboe, oboist and instrument-maker. Life Triébert was born in Paris in 1810; his father (1770–1847) and brother Frédéric Triébert (1813–1878) were wind instrument maker ...

(1810–1867), French * *

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(1813–1878), French * (instrument maker) * Raoul Triébert (1845–), French * * Stanislas Verroust (1814–1863), French * Gustave Vogt (1781–1870), French * * Friedrich Westenholz (1778–1840), German * *

Carlo Yvon Carlo Yvon (29 April 1798 in Milan – 23 December 1854 in Milan) was an Italian composer, virtuoso oboist and English horn player, and music educator. He studied at the Milan Conservatory in his native city and later was a teacher at that scho ...

(1798–1854), Italian

20th-century oboists

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* Albert J. Andraud (1884–1975), French-American * Rhadames Angelucci (1915–1991), American * Alfred Barthel (1871–1957), French *

Evelyn Barbirolli Evelyn, Lady Barbirolli OBE (24 January 191125 January 2008) was an English oboist, and the wife of the eminent conductor Sir John Barbirolli. She was born Evelyn Rothwell, and was known professionally by that name until after she was widowed, ...

(born Evelyn Rothwell), (1911–2008), English * * Louis Bas (1863–1944), French * Etienne Baudo (1903–2001), French * (1871–1941), French * Robert Bloom (1908–1994), American * * Joy Boughton (1913–1963), English * Leonard Brain (1915–1975), English * * Henri de Busscher (1880–1975), Belgian * * Natalie Caine (1909–2008), English * (1932–1984), French *

Janet Craxton Janet Helen Rosemary Craxton (17 May 192918 July 1981) was an English oboe player and teacher. She was the youngest of the six children and the only daughter of the pianist and teacher Harold Craxton. Her older brothers included the artist John C ...

(1929–1981), English * (Sister of the painter

John Craxton John Leith Craxton RA, (3 October 1922 – 17 November 2009) was an English painter. He was sometimes called a neo-Romantic artist but he preferred to be known as a "kind of Arcadian". Biography Career John was the son of musician Harold ...

) * William Criss (1921–1984), American *

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(1921–2002), American * * Albert Debondue (1895–1984), FrenchBurgess, p. 202 * Antonio Estévez (1916–1988), Venezuelan * (composer) * Alvin Etler (1913–1973), American * (composer) * Svend Christian Felumb (1898–1972), Danish * Peter Fischer (1924–2004), German *

Fritz Flemming Fritz originated as a German nickname for Friedrich, or Frederick (''Der Alte Fritz'', and ''Stary Fryc'' were common nicknames for King Frederick II of Prussia and Frederick III, German Emperor) as well as for similar names including Fridoli ...

(born 1872 or 1873; died 1947), German * (1905–1984), Canadian * Bert Gassman (1911–2004), American * Fernand Gillet (1882–1980), French *

Ruth Gipps Ruth Dorothy Louisa ("Wid") Gipps (20 February 1921 – 23 February 1999) was an English composer, oboist, pianist, conductor, and educator. She composed music in a wide range of genres, including five symphonies, seven concertos, and num ...

(1921–1999), British (composer) * Albert Goltzer (1918–2007), American * Harold Gomberg (1916–1985), American * * Ralph Gomberg (1921–2006), American * *

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(1897–1988), English * *

Peter Graeme Graeme Peter Crump (1921 – 1 March 2012), known professionally as Peter Graeme and as 'Timmy' Crump to friends and family, was an English oboist and academic teacher. He was best known as the principal oboist of the Melos Ensemble. Career P ...

(1921–2012), English *

Percy Grainger Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who lived in the United States from 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918. In the course of a long an ...

(1882–1961), Australian-American * (1910–1990), Czech * * Earnest Harrison (1918–2005), American * Hans Kamesch (1901–1975), Austrian *

Rudolf Kempe Rudolf Kempe (14 June 1910 – 12 May 1976) was a German conductor. Biography Kempe was born in Dresden, where from the age of fourteen he studied at the Dresden State Opera School. He played oboe in the opera orchestra of Dortmund and ...

(1910–1976), German * (conductor) * Bruno Labate (1883–1968), Italian * Roland Lamorlette (1894–1960), French * Alfred Läubin (1906–1976), American (instrument maker) *

Marc Lifschey Marc Lifschey (June 16, 1926 – November 8, 2000) was an American oboist who played principal oboe for the Cleveland Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra over the course o ...

(1926–2000), American * Georges Longy (1868–1930), French *

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Terence MacDonagh John Alfred Terence MacDonagh (3 February 1908 – 12 September 1986) was an English Oboe, oboist and cor anglais player, particularly known as one of the four members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's so-called "Royal Family" of woodwind pla ...

(1908–1986), British * Arno Mariotti (1911–1993), German-born American *

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(1913–1978), German-American * * Robert Mayer (1910–1994), American * Karl Mayrhofer (1927–1976), Austrian *

Mitch Miller Mitchell William Miller (July 4, 1911 – July 31, 2010) was an American choral conductor, record producer, record-industry executive, and professional oboist. He was involved in almost all aspects of the industry, particularly as a conductor ...

(1911–2010), American (choir conductor, recording director) * Myrtile Morel (1889–1979), French * (1904–1983), American * Pierre Pierlot (1921–2007), French * Giuseppe Prestini (1877–1930), Italian * David Reichenberg (1950–1987), American * (also listed under period instrumentalists below) *

A. Clyde Roller Archibald Clyde Roller (October 13, 1914 – October 16, 2005) was an American music professor, conductor, and oboist. Roller, a native of Rogersville, Missouri, received his musical education at the Eastman School of Music, graduating in 1941. ...

(1914–2005), American * Marcel Saillet (1898–1983), Swiss * Jürg Schaeftlein (1929–1986), Austrian * * Riccardo Scozzi (1878–1955), Italian * Edgar Shann (1919–1984), Swiss *

Harry Shulman Harry A. Shulman (May 14, 1903 – March 20, 1955) was a professor at Yale Law School from 1930–1954, the Dean of Yale Law School from 1954–1955, and a prominent labor arbitrator. Early life Shulman was born in Krugloye near Mogilev (no ...

(1916–1971), American * Jerry Sirucek (1922–1996), American * (1922–1995), Dutch * Václav Smetáček (1906–1986), Czech * (conductor) * Robert Sprenkle (1914–1988), American *

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(1923–1995), American *

William Grant Still William Grant Still Jr. (May 11, 1895 – December 3, 1978) was an American composer of nearly two hundred works, including five symphonies, four ballets, nine operas, over thirty choral works, plus art songs, chamber music and works fo ...

(1895–1978), American * (composer) * (1915–1964), Dutch * * Jaap Stotijn (1891–1970), Dutch * * František Suchý (1902–1977), Czech * *

Sidney Sutcliffe Sidney Clement Sutcliffe (6 October 1918 – 1 July 2001) was a British oboist. He played in the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia and BBC Symphony orchestras, and was professor of oboe at the Royal College of Music in London. Life and career Sut ...

(1918–2001), Scottish * (1922–2008), Japanese *

Marcel Tabuteau Marcel Tabuteau (2 July 18874 January 1966) was a French-American oboist who is considered the founder of the American school of oboe playing. Life Tabuteau was born in Compiègne, Oise, France, and given a post in the city's municipal wind band ...

(1887–1966), French/American * *

Jiří Tancibudek Jiří Tancibudek AM (5 March 19211 May 2004) was a Czech-born Australian oboist, conductor and teacher of great renown in his adopted country and elsewhere. His obituary in the ''Adelaide Review'', titled "Prince of the oboe", said of his play ...

(1921–2004), Czech-Australian * Giuseppe Tomassini (1915–1987), Italian * Lois Wann (1912–1999), American * Alexander Wunderer (1877–1955), Austrian

20th-century players of the English horn

* Engelbert Brenner (1904–1986), Austrian- born American *

Harry Freedman Harry Freedman (''Henryk Frydmann''), (April 5, 1922 – September 16, 2005) was a Canadian composer, English hornist, and music educator of Polish birth. He wrote a significant amount of symphonic works, including the scores to films such as '' T ...

(1922–2005), Polish-born Canadian (composer) * Hans Hadamowsky (1906–1986), Austrian * Peter Henkelman (1882–1949), Dutch * Leo van der Lek (1908–1999), Dutch * John Minsker (1912–2007), American * Louis Speyer (1890–1980), French-born American

Contemporary classical oboists

A-B

* Janice Applegate (born 1948), American *Aurel Marc, Romanian * Max Artved (born 1965), Danish * Theodore Baskin (born 1950), American * Perry Bauman (1918–2004), American-Canadian * William Bennett (oboist), William Bennett (1956–2013), American * Melvin Berman (musician), Melvin Berman (1929–2008), American-Canadian * (1929–2020), Uruguayan * * Neil Black (1932–2016), English * Maurice Bourgue (born 1939), French * Peter Bowman (oboist), Peter Bowman, American * Douglas Boyd (born 1960), Scottish * Peter Bree (born 1949), Dutch * Riccardo Bricchi (oboist), Riccardo Bricchi (born 1959), Italian

C-E

* German Cáceres (born 1954), Salvadoran * (composer) * George Caird (oboist), George Caird (born c. 1950), English * Sandro Caldini (born 1958), Italian * Anthony Camden (1938–2006), English * Roy Carter (born 1949), English * Joseph Celli (born 1944), American * * Nicholas Daniel (born 1962), English * Clara Dent (born 1973), German (daughter of Simon Dent) * (born 1972), Australian * Paolo Di Cioccio (born 1963), Italian * Jonathan Dlouhy, American * Diana Doherty (born 1966), Australian * Elaine Douvas (born 1952), American * Stuart Edward Dunkel, American * Niels Eje (born 1954), Danish * Majid Entezami (born 1947), Iranian

F-H

* John Ferrillo, American * (born 1938), English * * Thomas Gallant, American * Alfred Genovese (1931–2011), American * Ariana Ghez (born 1979), American * Burkhard Glaetzner (born 1943), German * Wynne Godley (1926–2010), English (economist) * Henrik Chaim Goldschmidt (born 1959), Danish * Ingo Goritzki (born 1939), German * Charles Hamann (born 1971), American-Canadian * (born 1965), German * Jared Hauser (born 1971), American * (born 1940), Dutch * Brynjar Hoff (born 1940), Norwegian * Heinz Holliger (born 1939), Swiss * * Bernd Holz (born 1955), German * Christian Hommel (oboist), Christian Hommel (born 1963), German * Gordon Hunt (musician), Gordon Hunt (born 1950), English

I-L

* (born 1951), Swiss * Eugene Izotov (born 1973), Russian-American * Florin Ionoaia (born 1956), Romanian * Jean-Claude Jaboulay, French * Helen Jahren (born 1959), Swedish * Kamil Jalilov (1938–2022), Azerbaijani * Arthur Jensen (oboist), Arthur Jensen (1925–2018), American * Giorgi Kalandarishvili (born 1983) Georgian-German. Muenster Symphony, University of Music in Muenster "Musikhochschule Münster" * Michael Kamen (1948–2003), American (film score composer) * Melvin Kaplan (born 1929), American * Jonathan Kelly (oboist), Jonathan Kelly (born 1969), British * Dimitris Kitsos (born 1971), Greek * Alex Klein (born 1964), Brazilian * Elizabeth Koch (born 1986), American * Lothar Koch (oboist), Lothar Koch (1935–2003), German * * (born ), Estonian * Yeon-Hee Kwak (born ), Korean * François Leleux (born 1971), French * (born 1943), Hungarian * Jay Light (musician), Jay Light (born 1940s), American * Michael Lisicky (born 1964), American

M-Q

* John Mack (musician), John Mack (1927–2006), American * Charles Mackerras (1925–2010), Australian (conductor) * * Jean-Claude Malgoire (1940–2018), French * Joel Marangella (born 1940s), American * Eldevina Materula (born 1982), Mozambican * Albrecht Mayer (born 1965), German * Malcolm Messiter, English * Fumiaki Miyamoto (born 1949) 宮本文昭, Japanese * Lucas Macías Navarro (born 1978), Spanish * Katherine Needleman (born 1978), American * (born 1978), Russian * Christopher O'Neal (oboist), Christopher O'Neal (born 1953), British * (born 1967), Dutch * Ivan Podyomov, (born 1986), Russian * (1918–2010), Russian

R-S

* Wayne Rapier (1930–2005), American * Elizabeth Raum (born 1945), Canadian * * Sally Sarah Johnston Reid (born 1948), American * * Juozas Rimas (born 1942), Lithuanian * Roger Roe (born 1968), American, assistant principal oboist/English horn player of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra * Carlo Romano (oboist), Carlo Romano (born 1954), Italian * Joseph Robinson (oboist), Joseph Robinson (born 1940), American * * Pierre Rolland (musician), Pierre Rolland (1931–2011), Canadian * Ronald Roseman (1933–2000), American * Edwin Roxburgh (born 1937), English * * Telena Ruth (born 1957), Australian * Graham Salter, English * Hansjorg Schellenberger (born 1948), German * Bernard Schenkel (born 1941), Swiss * Bart Schneemann (born 1954), Dutch * (born 1970), German * Martin Schuring (American) * Jonathan Small (oboist), Jonathan Small (born 1956), English * Peter Smith (oboist), Peter Smith, American * Jan Spronk (born ), Dutch * Eva Steinaa (born 1993), Danish * Ray Still (1920–2014), American * Quartetto Gelato, Cynthia Steljes (1960–2006), Canadian * Daniel Stolper (1935–2020), American * Laila Storch (1921–2022), American * Linda Strommen (born 1957), American

T-Z

* Blair Tindall (born 1960), American (author) * Jacques Tys, French * Alexei Utkin (born 1957), Russian * (born 1963), Belgian * Allan Vogel (born 1944), American * Han de Vries (born 1941), Dutch * * Edo de Waart (born 1941), Dutch * (conductor) * (born 1958), French * Liang Wang (oboist), Liang Wang (born 1980) 王亮, Chinese

* Mark Weiger (1959–2008), American * Judith Weir (born 1954), Scottish (composer) * * Helmut Winschermann (1920–2021), German (conductor) * Richard Woodhams (born 1949), American * Renato Zanfini, Italian * Omar Zoboli (born 1953), Italian

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

* Russ deLuna (born 1969), American * Jennifer Paull (born 1944), English (

) * Christine Pendrill, English * Louis Rosenblatt (1928–2009), American * Grover Schiltz (1931–2012), American * Thomas Stacy (born 1938), American *

Contemporary oboists best known for playing period instruments

* Katharina Arfken, German * Paul Dombrecht (born 1948), Belgian * Ku Ebbinge (born 1948), Dutch * * Paul Goodwin (born 1956), English * * Bruce Haynes (1942–2011), American-Canadian * * (born 1943), Japanese (conductor) * Christopher Palameta (born 1979), Canadian * Michel Piguet (1932–2004), Swiss * * Marcel Ponseele (born 1957), Belgian * Susanne Regel (born 1974), German * David Reichenberg (1950–1987), American * * Hugo Reyne (born 1961), French * Anthony Robson (born 1955), English * Marc Schachman, American David Wright
"Philharmonia Baroque’s “Teseo” teeters between broad comedy, deeper emotions"
''Boston Classical Review'', August 15, 2014

Oboists performing primarily outside classical genres

As primary instrument

* Kyle Bruckmann (born 1971), American – free improvisation * Lindsay Cooper (1951–2013), English – art rock * Jean-Luc Fillon (born 1960s), French – jazz * Karl Jenkins (born 1944), Welsh * – jazz * Colin Maier (born 1976), Canadian – new classical, celtic * Paul McCandless (born 1947), American * – jazz * Nancy Rumbel (born 1951), American – new age * Sonny Simmons (1933–2021), American – jazz * Frank Socolow (1923–1981), American – jazz * Kate St John (born 1957), English – art rock, pop * Libby Van Cleve (born 1958), American – avant garde * Russel Walder (born 1959), American – new age

As secondary instrument

* Ahmad Alaadeen (1934–2010), American – jazz (saxophonist) * Marshall Allen (born 1924), American – jazz (saxophonist) * Derek Bell (musician), Derek Bell (1935–2002), Irish – folk (harpist) * Amanda Brown (musician), Amanda Brown (born 1965), Australian – indie rock (violinist, guitarist) * Garvin Bushell (1902–1991), American – jazz (all reeds) * Bob Cooper (musician), Bob Cooper (1925–1993), American – jazz (saxophone) * Julie Fowlis (born 1979), Scottish – Celtic (vocalist) * Vinny Golia (born 1946), American – jazz (all woodwinds) * Joseph Jarman (1937–2019), American – jazz (clarinetist, saxophonist) * Mick Karn (1958–2011), British – rock (multi-instrumentalist) * Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1936–1977), American – jazz (multi-instrumentalist) * Yusef Lateef (1920–2013), American – jazz (saxophonist, flutist) * Giuseppi Logan (1935–2020), American – jazz (multi-instrumentalist) * Andy Mackay (born 1946), English – art rock (saxophonist) * Charlie Mariano (1923–2009), American – jazz (saxophonist) * Makanda Ken McIntyre (1931–2001), American – jazz (saxophonist) * Roscoe Mitchell (born 1940), American – jazz (saxophonist) * Dewey Redman (1931–2006), American – jazz (saxophonist, suona) * Don Redman (1900–1964), American – jazz (clarinetist, saxophonist) * Sufjan Stevens (born 1975), American – indie rock (multi-instrumentalist) * Kjartan Sveinsson (born 1978), Icelandic – post-rock (keyboardist)

Shehnai players

* Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan (1939–2016), Indian * Bismillah Khan (1916–2006), Indian * S. Ballesh (born 1958), Indian

References

External links

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
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International Double Reed Society website

Exhaustive list of active double-reed musicians
at oboeinsight.com
Important people in oboe history
Lists of musicians by instrument, Oboists Oboists, Classical oboists, Cor anglais players,