Well-Tempered Woodwinds: Friedrich von Huene and the Making of Early Music in a New World

363 Pages·2015·59.096 MB·English

by  Geoffrey Burgess

Well- Tempered Woodwinds
PUBLICATIONS OF THE EARLY MUSIC INSTITUTE
Paul Elliott, editor
Well- Tempered
Woodwinds
Friedrich von Huene and the Making of
Early Music in a New World
Geoff rey Burgess
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bloomington and Indianapolis
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Endpapers: Front: Mea sure ments of alto recorder by Jean Hyacinthe
Rottenburgh (Brussels Musical Instrument Museum, no. 2643a) by
Friedrich von Huene, 1966. Rear: Entwurf einer Altblockfl oete, 1967:
von Huene’s production drawing for the Moeck- Rottenburgh alto.
Frontispiece: Friedrich von Huene.
Dedicated to the memory of Frans Brüggen (1934–2014),
whose charismatic per for mances introduced
the instruments of Friedrich von Huene to audiences
around the world and inspired a generation to believe
in the recorder and traverso.
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I believe in improving the facility and versatility of the recorder to make it also
a modern instrument, thereby giving it a future as well as a past.
— Friedrich von Huene
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