30 Famous French Clarinetists
Happy Bastille Day – vive la France!
I will always consider France my adopted country, so to celebrate this French national holiday I’ve listed 30 famous French clarinetists.
As always, this list is not intended to be comprehensive. I have tried to include notable clarinetists who spent their formative years in France, but many of these clarinetists later moved to perform in other countries.
- Michel Arrignon
- Nicholas Baldeyrou
- Frédéric Berr
- Philippe Berrod
- Daniel Bonade
- Jacques Jules Boufil
- Louis Cahuzac
- Lucien Cailliet
- Florent Charpentier
- Philippe Cuper
- Alain Damiens
- Guy Dangain
- Ulysse Delécluse
- Guy Deplus
- Pierre Gennison
- Georges Grisez
- Gaston Hamelin
- Florent Héau
- Paul Jeanjean
- Hyacinthe Klosé
- Jacques Lancelot
- Jean-Xavier Lefèvre
- Paul Meyer
- Prosper Mimart
- Pascal Moraguès
- Auguste Périer
- Cyrille Rose
- Alexandre Selmer
- Émile Stiévenard
- Michèl Yost
Which famous French clarinetists would you add to your list?
7 Comments
Carlos Alberto ROSSI
Quisiera afregar a la lista de clarinetistas y saxos soprano a Renè FRANC
jennyclarinet
Thank you for this recommendation!
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Robert Monie
Henri Druart, Andre Boutard (in the 60s and 70s, his recording of the Poulenc Sonata on the Nonesuch label was the one most American players heard, and A. Jolivet wrote his Sonatine for Flute and Clarinet (1961) for Boutard), Henri Sarlit (dedicated his challenging transcriptions of Chopin and Schumann to August Perier), Henri Leroy (principal cl. in the New York Philharmonic in 1912, and premiere performer of the Debussy Rhapsody in America, also developed a mouthpiece on a Chedeville blank that is a collector’s item today), and Ferdinand Capelle (has a street in France named for him, and wrote a book, 20 Grand Etudes).
Wilfried Berk
Patrick Messina – Nicolas Baldeyrou – Olivier Patey
Cuper
Did you received the list that I have added?
jennymaclay
Yes, thank you!