Flutist

In American English, a flutist is a musician who plays the flute. The equivalant British and Commonwealth term is flautist (based on Italian word flauto, and adopted due to 18th century Italian influence).

Some important classical flute players are:

• Richard Adeney

• Julius Baker

• William Bennett

• Theobald Boehm[?]

• Alfred Franz Doppler[?]

• James Galway

• Severino Gazzelloni

• Peter-Lukas Graf

• Irena Grafenauer

• Frederick the Great

• William Kincaid[?]

• Hans-Martin Linde[?]

• Gareth Morris

• Marcel Moyse

• Aurèle Nicolet[?]

• Emmanuel Pahud

• Stephen Preston[?]

• Johann Joachim Quantz

• Jean Pierre Rampal

• Elaine Shaffer

• John Wummer[?]

• Karl-Heinz Zöller

External Links

• Principal flute players (http://hometown.aol.com/johnwion/orchestra.html)

Some important jazz flute players are:

• Ian Anderson

• George Adams[?]

• Wayman Carver[?]

• Hariprasad Chaurasia[?]

• Buddy Collette[?]

• Robert Dick[?]

• Eric Dolphy

• Joe Farrell[?]

• Sonny Fortune

• Pannalal Ghosh[?]

• Paul Horn

• Roland Kirk

• Hubert Laws

• Charles Lloyd[?]

• Herbie Mann

• Yusef Lateef

• Harold McNair

• James Moody[?]

• James Newton[?]

• Jerome Richardson

• Sam Rivers[?]

• Raghunath Seth[?]

• Bud Shank

• Sahib Shihab[?]

• Jeremy Steig[?]

• Nicola Stilo

• Nestor Torres

• Frank Wess

• Leo Wright

External links:

• Famous players (may have to navigate) (http://www.mostlywind.co.uk/famflaut.html)

• History of the jazz flute (http://members.chello.nl/p.guidi/history.html)