Philibert Rebillé ''dit'' Philbert (also ''Philibert'', 1639 – after March 1717) was a French

flautist The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

. He is credited with the introduction of the one-keyed

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

to France in around 1667.Ardal Powell, ''The Flute'' (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002). , p. 61 He was made a

court A court is any person or institution, often as a government institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance ...

musician by

Louis XIV of France , house = Bourbon , father = Louis XIII , mother = Anne of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France , death_date = , death_place = Palace of Versa ...

under the title of ''Musette de Poitou''. His wife was involved in the ''

Affair of the Poisons An affair is a sexual relationship, romantic friendship, or passionate attachment in which at least one of its participants has a formal or informal commitment to a third person who may neither agree to such relationship nor even be aware of ...

'' and was executed in 1679 for having poisoned her first husband, M. Brunet, in order to marry Philbert.

References

* Jonathan Wainwright, Peter Holman - ''From Renaissance to Baroque: change in instruments and instrumental music in the seventeenth century'' (Ashgate Publishing, Ltd (2005) ) * Anne Somerset - ''The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV'' (St. Martin's Press (October 12, 2003) )

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1639 births 1717 deaths French classical flautists Affair of the Poisons {{flautist-stub