Louis Drouet
{{Short description|French flautist and composer}}
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| birth_date = 14 April 1792
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Louis-François-Philippe Drouet (14 April 1792 – 30 September 1873) was a 19th-century French flutist and composer.
Biography
Born of a French father expatriated in the Netherlands and barber by profession, Louis Drouet began learning to play the flute as a self-taught man before entering the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of seven.
At 16, he was first flutist and teacher of Louis Bonaparte, Napoléon's brother, and King of Holland. After touring trips to England, the United States and Europe, in 1840 he became director of music by the Duke of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha.
Drouet was a great friend of Felix Mendelssohn. William Gordon, co-inventor of the Boehm system, and {{ill|Wilhelm Popp|fr}} were among his pupils. He was often referred to as the "Paganini of flute".
Works
The musicologist Arthur Pougin wanted to attribute to Louis Drouet (apparently wrongly) the melody of the unofficial hymn of the Second French Empire, "{{lang|fr|Partant pour la Syrie}}", although considered as having been composed by Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland from 1806 to 1810, and Napoléon III's mother.[https://www.napoleon.org/magazine/plaisirs-napoleoniens/partant-pour-la-syrie-ou-le-beau-dunois/ Partant pour la Syrie ou Le beau Dunois]
;Compositions
- 10 concertos
- more than 20 duets, trios, solos and fantasies
- more than 300 studies
;Pedagogic method
- Méthode pour la flûte, ou Traité complet et raisonné pour apprendre à jouer de cet instrument, Paris : A. J. Pleyel et fils aîné, 1828,[https://books.google.com/books?id=xmYPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA85 Allgem. musikal. Zeit.]. Mayence & Anvers : B. Schott, 1829[http://porbase.bnportugal.pt/ Biblioteca nacional de Portugal] translation into English under the title Drouët's Method of Flute Playing, London: R. Cocks, 1830[http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-list British Library] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026163422/http://www.geocities.com/helenvict0r/Doudney_works.html |date=2009-10-26 }} and [http://lccn.loc.gov/93074208 Library of Congress] reissued in French by Arlette Biget and Michel Giboureau in Flûte traversière : méthodes, traités, périodiques, vol. III, Courlay : J. M. Fuzeau, 2005.{{BNF|40126863m}}
References
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Bibliography
- {{Cite ADB|5|434|434|Drouet, Louis François Philippe|Moritz Fürstenau|ADB:Drouet, Louis François Philippe}}
- András Adorján, Lenz Meierott (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Flöte, Laaber-Verl., Laaber 2009, {{ISBN|978-3-89007-545-7}}
External links
- [http://flute.etoile-b.com/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=142 Biography] on La flûte traversière
- [http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Drouet,_Louis_Fran%C3%A7ois_Philippe Drouet, Louis François Philippe] on IMSLP
- {{in lang|en}} [http://www.flutiste.com/fluteenfrance_flutistesd_hier_louisdrouet.htm Louis Drouet] on flutiste.com
- [http://www.flutepage.de/deutsch/composer/person.php?id=43&englisch=true Biography of Louis Drouet (1792-1873)] on flutepage.de
- {{in lang|en}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304105014/http://www.giorgioproductions.com/drouet/ch12add.html Louis Drouet biography] on giorgioproductions.com
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