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Paul Taffanel. 1844-1908. Purpose. To study his technique book in relationship with the development of the Boehm flute. Bio. Born in Bordeaux, France Got his first flute lesson from his father at 9 years old Proficient by 10 Paris Conservatory at 14
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Paul Taffanel 1844-1908
Purpose • To study his technique book in relationship with the development of the Boehm flute.
Bio • Born in Bordeaux, France • Got his first flute lesson from his father at 9 years old • Proficient by 10 • Paris Conservatory at 14 • won premier prix in flute performance by 16 • won premier prix in composition by 18
Bio continued • Director of Paris Opera • Founded: • Societe Nationale Musique • Wind Society of Paris
Boehm flute • Theobald Boehm • 1794-1881 • Made his own flute • At age 18 proficient • University of Munich • New flute first displayed in 1851 at the London Exhibition
Taffanel liked the new flute and wanted to experiment with it himself • Not very many people agreed with the changes, and often • New design= new muscle memory
Influences • Camille Saint-Saëns • Tchaikovsky • Eduord Lalo
Technique Book • 17 Grands Exercises Jounaliers de Mecanisme pour Flute • Focuses on technique • Helped with establishing new muscle memory • Many teacher use this book; other woodwind players tend to use this book sometimes too
Bibliography • Bizet, Georges. “Entr’acte from Carmen.” In Solos for Flute, by Donald Peck ed., 8. New York: Carl Fischer, 1984. • Blakeman, Edward. Taffanel: Genius of the Flute. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. • Boehm, Theobald. The Flute and Flute Playing in Acoustical, Technical, and Artistic Aspects. Dover Edition 1964. Translated by Dayton C. Miller. New York: Dover. 1909. • Dobbs, Wendell. “Life with an Eight-Key Flute.” Flute Talk, November 2006: 14-17. • Powell, Ardal. The Flute. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. • Strasser, Michael. JSTOR: 19th- Century Music, vol. 24, No. 3 (Spring, 2001), pp. 225-251. Spring 2001. http://www.jstor.org/stable/746928. • Toff, Nancy. The Flute Book: A Complete Guide for Students and Performers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. • Blakeman, Edward. The Correspondence of Camille Saint-Saens and Paul Taffanel, 1880-1906.