Flageolet
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The flageolet is a woodwind instrument and a member of the family of duct flutes that includes recorders and tin whistles. There are two basic forms of the instrument: the French, having four finger h
French and english flageolets
Bird flageolet – private collection (Elemtilas)
French flageolet – private collection (Dominique Enon)
Hector Berlioz
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Louis-Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, conductor and critic. His output includes orchestral works such as the Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy, choral pieces including the Requi
Flageolet
…whistle and is rarely played today. However, it is a very easy instrument to play and the tone is soft and gentle. It has a range of about two octaves. Hector Berlioz, Frédéric Chalon, Samuel Pepys, and Robert Louis Stevenson all played flageolets. Henry Purcell and George Frideric Handel composed for it. Some of…
Louis Berlioz, the composer's father c. 1840
The Opéra, in the Rue le Peletier, Paris, c. 1821
Harriet Smithson as Ophelia
Marie ("Camille") Moke, later Pleyel