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Georges Barrère ( Bordeaux, October 31, 1876 - New York, June 14, 1944) was a French flutist. [1] Early life. Georges Barrère was the son of a cabinetmaker, Gabriel Barrère, and Marie Périne Courtet, an illiterate farmer's daughter from Guilligomarc'h. They married in 1874. They had previously had a son Étienne, out of wedlock, in 1872.
Georges Barrère (1876-1944), founder of the New York Flute Club, studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Henry Altès and Paul Taffanel, graduating with the premier prix in 1895. While still a student, Barrère played first flute with the Folies-Bergère and at the Concerts de l'Opéra.
Aug 18, 2005 · Georges Barrère (1876–1944) holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing. Best known for two of the landmark works that are dedicated to him — the Poem of Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Density 21.5 by Edgard Varèse — he was the most prominent early exemplar of the Paris Conservatoire tradition in the United States ...
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Georges Barrère and the Flute in America. Catalog for an exhibition at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. November 1994 - February 1995. Georges Barrère (1876-1944), who founded the New York Flute Club in 1920, holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing.
Dec 21, 2019 · Georges Barrère, Nocturne for piano and flute (1913). Dedicated to Paul Taffanel.Flute: Kenneth SmithPiano: Paul RhodesA Song Without Words: The Legacy of Pa...
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Aug 18, 2005 · Monarch of the Flute. : Nancy Toff. Oxford University Press, USA, Aug 18, 2005 - Biography & Autobiography - 437 pages. Georges Barrere (1876-1944) holds a preeminent place in the history of...
Georges Barrère Georges Barrère (1876–1944) studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Henry Altès and Paul Taffanel. As a very young man in 1894 he played the solo in the first performance of Debussy’s Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.
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