Marcel Tabuteau First-Hand

MT era oboe

Scores

On occasion, Tabuteau made notations or instructed me to make notations in scores that I brought to lessons. Below are some examples. —M. M.

J. S. Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067
Badinerie

Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K 385 ‘Haffner’
2nd movement excerpts

Measures one and two, 1st violins: 1-2-2-3-1-1-2-2-3-1-1-2-3
‘Group finishes on dot’
Measure 12; 1st violins: 1-2-2-3-2-3-3-4-4-5-6-7-[6-5]

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, KV 550
1st movement excerpts

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, KV 550 1st movement excerpts

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 in G Major, Hob. I: 94 ‘Surprise’
1st and 2nd movement excerpts

Initial section for Marc Mostovoy on the Tabuteau System: Introduction

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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.