List of oboists

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List of oboists

An oboist (formerly hautboist) is a musician who plays the oboe or any oboe family instrument, including the oboe d'amore, cor anglais or English horn, bass oboe and piccolo oboe or oboe musette.

Two musette players from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, 13th century

The following is a list of notable past and present professional oboists, with indications when they were/are known better for other professions in their own time. Oboists with an asterisk (*) have biographies in the online version of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Historical oboists

Baroque period 1600–1760

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Oboist – etching and print by Johann Christoph Weigel (1661–1726)

Classical period 1730–1820

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Portrait of an unknown oboist by anonymous painter, 1st half 18th century

Romantic period 1815–1910

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Johann Friedrich Diethe (1810–1891), oboist of the Gewandhausorchester by C. Reimers
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The Oboe Player (Benjamin Sharp) by Thomas Eakins, 1903

20th-century oboists

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Ralph Gomberg
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Leon Goosens
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Haakon Stotijn, 1961
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Alexander Wunderer
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Attilio Bianco, English horn, 1917

A–L

M–Z

20th-century players of the English horn

  • Engelbert Brenner (1904–1986), Austrian- born American[76]
  • Harry Freedman (1922–2005), Polish-born Canadian (composer)
  • Hans Hadamowsky (1906–1986), Austrian[77]
  • Peter Henkelman (1882–1949), Dutch[78]
  • Leo van der Lek (1908–1999), Dutch[79]
  • John Minsker (1912–2007), American[80]
  • Louis Speyer (1890–1980), French-born American

Contemporary classical oboists

A–B

C–E

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Niels Eje, 2009

F–H

I–L

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Eugene Izotov

M–Q

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Albrecht Mayer making a reed

R–S

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Bart Schneemann
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Ray Still, 1980s

T–Z

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Jennifer Paull with three Oboe d'amores

Contemporary oboists best known for playing English horn (cor anglais) or oboe d'amore

Contemporary oboists best known for playing period instruments

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Marcel Ponseele

Oboists performing primarily outside classical genres

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Nancy Rumbel
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Andy Mackay of Roxy Music, 1974

As primary instrument

As secondary instrument

Shehnai players

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Bismillah Khan

References

Further reading

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