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Author Toff, Nancy.

Title Monarch of the flute : the life of Georges Barrère / Nancy Toff.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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 Moore Stacks  ML419.B185 T64 2005    Available  ---
Description xiv, 437 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-420) and index.
Contents The fifer, 1876-93 -- The faun, 1893-95 -- The jeune école, 1895-98 -- Fin de siècle, 1898-99 -- 1900 : in the vanguard of progress -- The new century, 1901-05 -- 1905 : enter Walter Damrosch -- The world of the Damrosch brothers, 1905-09 -- "A musical envoy from France," 1909-12 -- Yankee entrepreneur, 1912-15 -- Alliances Françaises, 1915-17 -- Over here, 1917-18 -- "The world's greatest flutist," 1918-21 -- "Pan himself," 1921-26 -- "The casals of the flute," 1926-28 -- Jubilee, 1928-30 -- "I heard the great Barrère," 1931-36 -- "The last word in chamber music," 1936-40 -- "The last survivor," 1940-44 -- Epilogue : monarch of the flute.
Subject Barrère, Georges, 1876-1944.
Barrère, Georges, 1876-1944.
Flute players.
Flute players.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies.
ISBN 0195170164 alkaline paper
Standard No. 9780195170160