Philibert Rebillé ''dit'' Philbert (also ''Philibert'', 1639 – after March 1717) was a
French
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flautist.
He is credited with the introduction of the one-keyed
flute to France in around 1667.
[Ardal Powell, ''The Flute'' (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002). , p. 61] He was made a
court
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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 V ...
under the title of ''Musette de Poitou''.
His wife was involved in the ''
Affair of the Poisons'' 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) )
Notes
1639 births
1717 deaths
French classical flautists
Affair of the Poisons
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