Marcel Tabuteau First-Hand

MT era oboe

Other

Schmidt Quartet Concert

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Oboe Quartet, KV 370

Little Theater – Philadelphia, PA
March 23, 1916

Chamber Music Concert

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Oboe Quartet, KV 370

Bellevue-Stratford Hotel – Philadelphia, PA
March 23, 1918
with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra:
Thaddeus Rich, violin; Emil Ferir, viola; Hans Kindler, cello

Program not available

Berkshire Festival of Chamber Music

Domenico Brescia
Second Suite for Wind Quintet

Pittsfield, MA
September 30, 1922

Philadelphia Orchestra Ensemble

Émile Pessard – Prelude and Minuet
Claude Debussy – La Fille aux chevaux de lin
Ludwig Thuille – Sextette

The Scarborough School – Scarborough on Hudson, NY
November 30, 1926

The Woodwind Quintet Ensemble
from the Philadelphia Orchestra

Ludwig Van Beethoven – Quintet Op. 71
Paul de Wailly – Aubade
Claude Debussy – La Fille aux chevaux de lin
Adrien Barthe – Passacaille
Émile Pessard – Prelude and Minuet
Charles Lefebvre – Quintet

The Ogontz School – Elkins Park, PA
October 26, 1927

Concert

George Frederick Handel – Oboe Concerto in G Minor
Marcel Tabuteau, Oboe Soloist

Location unknown
Previous to December 11, 12, 1931

Performance mentioned in a review

Philadelphia Chamber String Sinfonietta

George Frederick Handel
Oboe Concerto in G Minor

Bellevue-Stratford Hotel Ballroom – Philadelphia, PA
October 20, 1938

Program not available

Wind Ensemble from the Philadelphia Orchestra
Marcel Tabuteau, Oboe
Ralph McLane, Clarinet
Mason Jones, Horn
Sol Schoenbach, Bassoon
Rudolph Serkin, Piano

Ludwig Van Beethoven – Quintet for Piano and Winds Op. 16

Town Hall – New York City NY
November 7, 1943

Program not available

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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.