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Week of Apr 12th
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Birthday of Theobald Böhm
Birthday of Theobald Böhm
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April 9, 2024Theobald Böhm (or Boehm) (April 9, 1794 – November 25, 1881) was a German inventor and musician, who perfected the modern Western concert flute and improved its fingering system (now known as the "Boehm system"). He was a Bavarian court musician, a virtuoso flautist and a renowned composer.
The fingering system he devised has also been adapted to other instruments, such as the oboe and the clarinet.
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Birthday of Louis-François-Philippe Drouet
Birthday of Louis-François-Philippe Drouet
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April 14, 2024Louis-François-Philippe Drouet (April 14, 1792) was a 19th-century French flautist and composer. Born of a French father expatriated in the Netherlands and barber by profession, Louis Drouet began learning to play the flute as a self-taught man before entering the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of seven. At 16, he was first flutist and teacher of Louis Bonaparte, Napoléon's brother, and King of Holland. After touring trips to England, the United States and Europe, in 1840 he became director of music by the Duke of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha.