Theobald boehm biography books

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          His second publication, in , was a translation and annotation of the Theobald Boehm book, The Flute and Flute-Playing.

        1. Theobald Böhm was a German inventor and musician, who greatly improved the modern Western concert flute and its fingering system.
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        3. A great read and glimpse into the inventor of the modern flute and its history.
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          5. Theobald Boehm

          German inventor and musician (1794–1881)

          Theobald Böhm (or Boehm) (9 April 1794 – 25 November 1881) was a German inventor and musician, who greatly improved the modern Western concert flute and its fingering system (now known as the "Boehm system").

          He was a Bavarian court musician, a virtuoso flautist and a renowned composer.[1]

          The fingering system he devised has also been adapted to other instruments, such as the oboe and the clarinet.[2]

          Life and works

          Born in Munich in the Electorate of Bavaria in the family of goldsmith Carl Friedrich Böhm and Anna Franziska, née Sulzbacher, daughter of a court haberdasher.

          Boehm learned his father's trade of goldsmithing. After making his own flute, he quickly became proficient enough to play in an orchestra at the age of seventeen, and at twenty-one he was first flautist in the Royal Bavarian Orchestra.[2] Meanwhile, he experimented with constructing flutes out of many differ