Well-tempered woodwinds : Friedrich von Huene and the making of early music in a new world /
Friedrich von Huene is arguably the most important manufacturer of historical woodwinds in the 20th century. Since he began making recorders in 1958, von Huene has exerted a strong influence on the craft of building woodwind instruments and on the study of instrument-making, as he has helped to shap...
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2015]
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| ISBN: | 9780253016416 (cloth : alk. paper) 025301641X (cloth : alk. paper) |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: Why recorders?
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: A domestic music room in Brookline
- Childhood in paradise
- Flight from Eden
- Training in a new world
- Friedrich the Great : founding an empire
- Trading old flutes for new
- Heydays
- At the hub of an international network
- Cause to celebrate
- The von Huene legacy
- Epilogue: Amid the mementos of an active life
- Appendix 1. Von Huene family tree
- Appendix 2. Friedrich von Huene summary chronology
- Appendix 3. List of honors
- Appendix 4. Recordings of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos with recorders, 1941-1993
- Appendix 5. List of instruments produced by the von Huene workshop
- Appendix 6. Recorders and traversos heard in recordings by Frans Brüggen
- Appendix 7. General discography.