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Hotteterre

Rue Christine in 1707. He died in 1760-61. The Principes contains his portrait by Bernard Picart; the face is far from common, and is characteristic in expression. It will be noticed that the flute in the portrait has figures over each finger. "Le Romain" is

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Facsimile of a page of one of Hotteterre's flute solos with bass. In the original the lines are broken and very uneven, and it is difficult to tell what the notes really are.

said to have been the first to play the transverse flute in the opera at Paris, c. 1697. Several of his contemporaries bear testimony to his powers as a performer, and one, writing in 1702, says he "taught the instrument to lament in so affecting a manner in mournful

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