Marcel Tabuteau First-Hand

MT era oboe

Chamber Music

Performed

Current research indicates that Tabuteau performed the following chamber music works during his lifetime.

Barthe, Adrien. Passacaille.

Beethoven, Ludwig van. Quintet for Piano and Winds, Op. 16.

Beethoven,  Ludwig van. Quintet, Op. 71 (arrangement of the Sextet in Eb Major).

Beethoven, Ludwig van. Trio for 2 Oboes and English Horn, Op. 87. 

Brescia, Domenico. Second Suite.

Caplet, André. Suite Persane pour dixtuor à vents.

Debussy, Claude. La fille aux cheveux de lin (arr.).

de Falla, Manuel. Concerto per clavicembalo, flauto, oboe, clarinetto, violino e violoncello. (Wanda Landowska soloist)

de Wailly, Paul. Aubade pour Flûte, Hautbois et Clarinette.

Gounod, Charles. Petite symphonie.

Lefebvre, Charles. Suite for Winds No. 1, Op. 57.

Lefebvre, Charles. Quintet.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Oboe Quartet, K. 370/368b.

Pessard, Émile.  Prelude et Minuet.

Stravinsky, Igor. Pastorale for Violin, Oboe, English Horn, Clarinet, and Bassoon.

Thuille, Ludwig. Sextet for Piano and Woodwind Quintet, Op. 6.

A Curiosity

Below is the first page of the oboe part of a chamber work dedicated to Tabuteau by Albert Andraud, but there is no record of it having been performed or taught by Tabuteau. In fact it is not even a work of Mozart, but Johann Georg Lickl. Courtesy of Guy Baumier.

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What's New!

An audio interview with Joan Browne (Champie), a private Tabuteau student in the early 1950s.

A photograph of the music stand that was in Tabuteau’s private studio in Philadelphia.

An autographed photo of Marcel Tabuteau inscribed to Vladimir Sokoloff.

An autographed photo of Marcel Tabuteau inscribed to Joan Browne Champie.

With the passing of Wilbur Isaac Hilles in August 2023 and now Martha Scherer-Alfee in February 2024, no oboe students of Marcel Tabuteau at the Curtis Institute are still living.

A letter sent to the Curtis Institute by Laila Storch’s mother about Tabuteau not teaching at Curtis—and the reply.