Oboist

List of oboists

List of oboists

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An oboist (formerly hautboist) is a musician who plays the oboe or any oboe family instrument, including the oboe d'amore, cor anglais or English horn, bass oboe and piccolo oboe or oboe musette.

Two musette players from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, 13th century

The following is a list of notable past and present professional oboists, with indications when they were/are known better for other professions in their own time. Oboists with an asterisk (*) have biographies in the online version of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Historical oboists

Baroque period 1600–1760

Oboist – etching and print by Johann Christoph Weigel (1661–1726)

Classical period 1730–1820

Portrait of an unknown oboist by anonymous painter, 1st half 18th century

Romantic period 1815–1910

Johann Friedrich Diethe (1810–1891), oboist of the Gewandhausorchester by C. Reimers
The Oboe Player (Benjamin Sharp) by Thomas Eakins, 1903

20th-century oboists

Ralph Gomberg
Leon Goosens
Haakon Stotijn, 1961
Alexander Wunderer
Attilio Bianco, English horn, 1917

A–L

M–Z

20th-century players of the English horn

  • Engelbert Brenner (1904–1986), Austrian- born American[76]
  • Harry Freedman (1922–2005), Polish-born Canadian (composer)
  • Hans Hadamowsky (1906–1986), Austrian[77]
  • Peter Henkelman (1882–1949), Dutch[78]
  • Leo van der Lek (1908–1999), Dutch[79]
  • John Minsker (1912–2007), American[80]
  • Louis Speyer (1890–1980), French-born American

Contemporary classical oboists

A–B

C–E

Niels Eje, 2009

F–H

I–L

Eugene Izotov

M–Q

Albrecht Mayer making a reed

R–S

Bart Schneemann
Ray Still, 1980s

T–Z

Jennifer Paull with three Oboe d'amores

Contemporary oboists best known for playing English horn (cor anglais) or oboe d'amore

Contemporary oboists best known for playing period instruments

Marcel Ponseele

Oboists performing primarily outside classical genres

Nancy Rumbel
Andy Mackay of Roxy Music, 1974

As primary instrument

As secondary instrument

Shehnai players

Bismillah Khan

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Further reading

  • David Lasocki "The French Hautboy in England, 1673–1730" Early Music 16(3) 339–357
  • Alfredo Bernardini "The Oboe in the Venetian Republic, 1692–1797" Early Music 16(3) 372–387
  • Janet K. Page "The Hautboy in London's Musical Life, 1730–1770" Early Music 16(3) 358–371
  • Bruce Haynes "Mozart and the Oboe" Early Music 20(1) 43–63
  • Burgess, Geoffrey; Haynes, Bruce (2004). The Oboe. Yale Musical Instrument Series. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10053-2.
  • Ryoichi Narusawa (ed. Marc Fink) "A History of Oboe Playing in Japan" (The Double Reed, Vol.27 No.4, International Double Reed Society) 2004
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