Marcel Tabuteau First-Hand

MT era oboe

With the Oboe

Marcel Tabuteau after becoming a Chevalier de la Légion d’ Honneur, October 15th, 1937
Marcel Tabuteau after becoming a Chevalier de la Légion d’ Honneur, October 15th, 1937
Marcel Tabuteau
Marcel Tabuteau
Tabuteau in the 1940s
Tabuteau in the 1940s
Tabuteau in Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia (1940s)
Tabuteau in Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia (1940s)
A moment of repose at a rehearsal in the Academy of Music; early 1950s
A moment of repose at a rehearsal in the Academy of Music; early 1950s
There’s always practicing to be done at La Coustiéro!
There’s always practicing to be done at La Coustiéro!

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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.