Joseph-Henri Altès
Joseph-Henri Altès (born January 18, 1826 in Rouen , † July 24, 1895 in Paris ) was a French flutist and composer .
Altès was born the son of a soldier, began playing the flute at the age of 10 and began studying at the Paris Conservatory in December 1840 . He was taught the 4-key flute by his teacher Jean-Louis Tulou , but later switched to the Böhm model . Already at the Conservatory Competition in 1841 he received a second, and then in 1842 the first prize. From 1848 to 1872 he was the first flutist at the Paris Opera . In 1868 he succeeded Louis Dorus as a flute professor at the Paris Conservatory and remained so until 1893. Among his students were, for example, Georges Barrère and Adolphe Hennebains .
Altès wrote a flute school (1880, Célèbre Méthode complète de Flûte ) and left around 40 compositions, including 6 solo pieces for the Concours at the Paris Conservatory and transcriptions or fantasies on operatic motifs.
Altès was friends with the painter Edgar Degas , was portrayed by him in 1868 and is also depicted in his oil painting L'orchestre de l'Opéra (1868/69, today in the Musée d'Orsay ).
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- U. Pešek and Ž. Pešek: flute music from three centuries. Bärenreiter 1990.
- A. Goldberg: Portraits and biographies of outstanding flute virtuosos, dilettantes and composers. Moeck 1987 (reprint from 1906).
- András Adorján, Lenz Meierott (Ed.): Lexicon of the Flute , Laaber-Verl., Laaber 2009, ISBN 978-3-89007-545-7
Individual evidence
Web links
- Altès, portrayed by Degas, 1868 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
- Works by Altès, Creative Flute free sheet music
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Altès, Joseph-Henri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Altès, Henri |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French flautist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1826 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rouen |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1895 |
| Place of death | Paris |