Biography of Antoine Hugot (1761-1803)

1761

Year of birth

Principal flutist in the orchestra of Viotti, which later on became a part of the Opera Comique

1795

First flute professor at the new Paris conservatory

18.09.1803

Dies by suicide (by springing from a window in the fourth floor)

1804

Wunderlich finishs the method Hugot started to write before his death.

He wrote six flute concertos and various other pieces for the flute

Further information/Sources:

Adorján, András: Lexikon der Flöte
Flöteninstrumente und ihre Baugeschichte - Spielpraxis - Komponisten und ihre Werke - Interpreten
1. edition Laaber: Laaber-Verlag,
2009. - ISBN: 978-3-89007-545-7
Fitzgibbon, Henry Macaulay: The Story of the flute
A facsimile reprint of the 1915 Edition
Wildhern Press,
2009. - ISBN: 978-1-84830-180-1

Last edit 22.06.2012