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Theobald Boehm -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | In addition, he was a virtuoso (Someone who plays the flute) flautist and was a Bavarian Court Musician as well as a celebrated (Someone who composes music as a profession) composer for the flute. |
 | | After making his own flute, he quickly became proficent enough to play in an orchestra at the age of eighteen and at twenty-one he was first flute in the Royal Bavarian Orchestra. |
 | | In 1871 Boehm published "Die Flöte und das Flötenspiel" (The Flute and Flute-Playing), a treatise on the acoustical, technical and artistic aspects of the Boehm system flute. |
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