Flautist
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A flautist or flutist is a musician who plays the flute.
Naming controversy
The choice of "flautist" (from the Italian flautista, from flauto, and adopted due to 18th century Italian influence) vs "flutist" is the source of minor dispute among players of the instrument. "Flutist" is the earlier term, dating from at least 1603 (the earliest quote cited by the Oxford English Dictionary), while "flautist" is not recorded before 1860, when it was used by Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Marble Faun. While the print version of the OED does not indicate any regional preference for either form, the online Compact OED characterizes "flutist" as a United States usage.
The US player and writer Nancy Toff, in her The Flute Book, devotes a page to the subject, commenting that she is asked "Are you a flutist or a flautist?" on a weekly basis. She compares OED, Fowler's Dictionary of Modern Usage, Evans' Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage, and Copperud's , finding that only the American sources prefer "flutist", which also corresponds with her own personal preference. Nancy Toff, The Flute Book (Scribners, 1985), "Flute or Flautist?" pp. xiv-xv
Notable flautists
- Richard Adeney
- Julius Baker
- Jeanne Baxtresser
- William Bennett
- Michel Blavet
- Theobald Boehm — also inventor of modern flute keying
- Bonita Boyd
- Leone Buyse
- Hariprasad Chaurasia
- Alfred Franz Doppler
- Louis Fleury
- Frederick the Great — Prussian king and avid amateur
- James Galway
- Severino Gazzelloni
- Pannalal Ghosh
- Peter-Lukas Graf
- Irena Grafenauer
- Andrea Griminelli
- John Hackett
- Kieko Hashiguchi
- André Jaunet
- William Kincaid
- Joseph Mariano
- Hans-Martin Linde
- Gareth Morris
- Marcel Moyse
- Aurèle Nicolet
- Emmanuel Pahud
- Stephen Preston
- Johann Joachim Quantz - instructor of Frederick the Great, authored important treatise
- Jean Pierre Rampal
- Elaine Shaffer
- Fritz Spiegl
- Sanja Stijačić
- Sheridan Stokes
- Henrik Wiese [link]
- John Wummer
- Karl-Heinz Zöller
Notable jazz flute players include:
- George Adams
- Walter Bell
- Leslie Burrs
- Wayman Carver
- Buddy Collette
- Robert Dick
- Eric Dolphy
- Joe Farrell
- Sonny Fortune
- Paul Horn
- Roland Kirk
- Yusef Lateef
- Hubert Laws
- Thijs van Leer
- Charles Lloyd
- Herbie Mann
- Harold McNair
- Lloyd McNeill
- James Moody
- James Newton
- Jerome Richardson
- Sam Rivers
- Raghunath Seth
- Bud Shank
- Sahib Shihab
- Jeremy Steig
- Nicola Stilo
- Nestor Torres
- Frank Wess
- Leo Wright
- Michael Colquhoun
- Robert Dick
- Rhonda Larson
- Ian Anderson - Leader of Jethro Tull
- Peter Gabriel - Former lead singer of Genesis
- Andrew Latimer - Camel
- Thijs Van Leer - Focus
Notes
Pt Pannalal Ghosh Pt Vijay Raghav Rao Pt Hari Prasad Chourasis Pt Bholanath Ji Maharaj Pt Rajendra Prasanna
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