FLAUTIST

A 'flautist', 'flutist', or 'flute-player' is a musician who plays the flute.

Contents

Naming controversy: 'flautist' ''vs.'' 'flutist'

Notable flautists

Notes

External links

Naming controversy: 'flautist' ''vs.'' 'flutist'

The choice of "flautist" (from the Italian ''flautista'', from ''flauto'', and adopted due to 18th century Italian influence) versus "flutist" is the source of minor dispute among players of the instrument. "Flutist" is the earlier term in the English language, 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 an American usage.^[1]
Richard Rockstro in his three volume treatise ''The Flute''^[2] written in England in 1890 uses "flute-player".
The US player and writer Nancy Toff, in her ''The Flute Book'', devotes more than a page to the subject, commenting that she is asked "Are you a flutist or a flautist?" on a weekly basis. She says, "Ascribe my insistence either to a modest lack of pretension or to etymological evidence; the result is the same." She describes in some detail the etymology of words for "flute". (She is an editor for Oxford University Press.[1]) She compares ''OED'', Fowler's ''Dictionary of Modern Usage'', Evans' ''Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage'', and Copperud's ''. Fowler says "flautist" has displaced "flutist" in usage, though "flautist" is not so popular in the USA. She prefers "flutist" personally and etymologically.^[3]
The first edition of the OED lists ''fluter'' as dating from circa 1400 and Fowler's Modern English Usage^[4] states that "there seems no good reason" why ''flautist'' should have prevailed over ''fluter'' or ''flutist''. However, according to Webster's Dictionary of English Usage,^[5] ''flautist'' is the preferred term in British English, and while both terms are used in American English ''flutist'' is "by far the more common choice".
James Galway summed up the way many players of the flute feel about "flautist", saying, "I am a flute player, not a flautist. I don't have a flaut, and I've never flauted." To the keen ear of the linguist the dipthong embedded in flautist sounds true.

Notable flautists

★ Krishna

★ Bari Siddiqui (classical & folk fusion)

★ Bob Armer (central Oregon sass flautist)

★ Richard Adeney

★ Ian Anderson of the rock group Jethro Tull

★ Julius Baker

★ Samuel Baron

★ Jeanne Baxtresser

★ William Bennett

★ Michel Blavet

★ Theobald Boehm - also inventor of modern flute keying

★ Bonita Boyd

★ Leone Buyse

★ Antoinette Clinton

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★ Rebecca Marie Conneely

★ Patricia Creighton

★ Burton Cummings

★ Eric Dolphy

★ Albert Franz Doppler

★ Roberto Fabbriciani

★ Louis Fleury

★ Frederick the Great - Prussian king and avid amateur

★ Peter Gabriel, former lead singer of the rock group Genesis

★ James Galway

★ Severino Gazzelloni

★ Pannalal Ghosh

★ Peter-Lukas Graf

★ Irena Grafenauer

★ Andrea Griminelli

★ John Hackett

★ Kieko Hashiguchi

★ Bobbi Humphrey

★ Timothy Hutchins - Principal flute of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal since 1978.

★ Kelly Nicole Jahn

★ André Jaunet

★ William Kincaid

★ Naveen Kumar - From South India (Chennai). Recently released an instrumental album ''Fluid''

★ Sidney Lanier

★ Joseph Mariano

★ Peter Gabriel

★ Hans-Martin Linde

★ Elizabeth Mann

★ Gareth McLearnon

★ Barbara Morgan - Educator astronaut.

★ Gareth Morris

★ Marcel Moyse

★ Aurèle Nicolet

★ Emmanuel Pahud

★ Pan - from Greek mythology

★ Stephen Preston - pioneer of the baroque and early classical flute

★ Johann Joachim Quantz - instructor of Frederick the Great, authored important treatise

★ Raja Ram - flute player for electronica group Shpongle

★ Jean Pierre Rampal

★ Milan Munclinger

★ Elaine Shaffer

★ Fritz Spiegl

★ Sanja Stijačić

★ Alexa Still

★ Sheridan Stokes

★ Paul Taffanel

★ Henrik Wiese

★ John Wummer

★ Mao Xia

★ Karl-Heinz Zöller

★ Christine Neild-Capote

★ Jay Red Eagle

★ Keith Underwood

★ Alberto Corrales - From Havana, Cuba. He does extraordinary and inspired Cuban popular music performances because of his excellency in classic music techniques and talent.

Notable jazz flute players include:

★ George Adams

★ Walter Bell

★ Ron Burgundy (fictional)

★ Don Burrows

★ 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

★ Bobby Militello (current sax and flute player with the Dave Brubeck Quartet)

★ James Moody

★ James Newton

★ Jerome Richardson

★ Sam Rivers

★ Raghunath Seth

★ Bud Shank

★ Sahib Shihab

★ Jeremy Steig

★ Nicola Stilo

★ Nestor Torres

★ Chris Vadala (Chuck Mangione Quartet)

★ Dave Valentin

★ Frank Wess

★ Leo Wright
Notable innovators/Contemporary composers

★ Michael Colquhoun

★ Robert Dick

★ Rhonda Larson

★ Greg Pattillo
Notable progressive rock players include:

★ Ian Anderson - Leader of Jethro Tull

★ Peter Gabriel - Former lead singer of Genesis

★ Ian McDonald - First lineup of King Crimson

★ Mel Collins - Second lineup of King Crimson

★ Florian Schneider - Early lineup of Kraftwerk

★ Ray Thomas - The Moody Blues

★ Andrew Latimer - Camel

★ Thijs Van Leer - Focus

Notes

1. flutist
2. Richard Shepherd Rockstro, ''The Flute'' (Fritz Knuf - Buren, The Netherlands, 1986[1890])
3. Nancy Toff, ''The Flute Book'' (Scribners, 1985), "Flutist or Flautist?" pp. xiv-xv
4. ''Fowler's Modern English Usage'' (Oxford University Press, 1965) "flautist, fluter, flutist" p. 201
5. ''Webster's Dictionary of English Usage'' (Merriam-Webster Inc., 1989), "flautist, flutist" p. 452)

External links

★ Principal flute players

★ Famous players (may have to navigate)

★ History of the jazz flute