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Place of Birth: France
About Marcel Moyse
- Marcel Moyse (pron.
- moh-EEZ; May 17, 1889 in St.
- Amour, France – November 1, 1984 in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States) was a French flautist.
- Moyse studied at the Paris Conservatory and was a student of Philippe Gaubert, Adolphe Hennebains, and Paul Taffanel; all of whom were flute virtuosos in their time.
- Moyse played principal flute in various Paris orchestras and appeared widely as a soloist and made many recordings.
- His trademark tone was clear, flexible, penetrating, and controlled by a fast vibrato.
- This was a characteristic of the ‘French style’ of flute playing that was to influence the modern standard for flutists worldwide.Moyse taught on the faculty of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, and was a founder of the Marlboro Music School and festival in Vermont.
- Moyse strove to teach his students "not how to play the flute, but to make music".
- Among his students were James Galway, Paula Robison, Trevor Wye, William Bennett, Carol Wincenc, Bernard Goldberg, Robert Aitken, September Payne and Julia Bogorad.
- Moyse authored many flute studies, including De la Sonorite and Tone Development Through Interpretation, published by McGinnis & Marx.
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