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Whoever plays bravura pieces on the flute today will use a Boehm flute. It was in 1832 that Theobald Boehm began constructing a conical ring-keyed flute whose ingenious new fingering system would facilitate playing in every key. Thanks to the technical experience he had gained from goldsmithing, he succeeded in improving the uneven sound and dynamics of the flute and its lack of power compared to oboes and clarinets, particularly within the orchestra. As a travelling flute virtuoso praised by his contemporaries as 'the best flutist of our time in Germany', he was especially valued for his educational works and collections of Studies, containing in his own words 'more or less every difficulty that can be performed on the flute'. The 'modern' transverse flute's full sound and elegant playing technique led many composers, principally in France, to cultivate a genre which - in salon fantasies, paraphrases and sets of variations, for instance on popular opera melodies - invented the bravura piece as a powerful poetic and virtuosic means of expression. As a composer, Boehm also succumbed to contemporary musical taste, but at a very high level. His Fantasy on a Waltz by Schubert op.21 in A flat major (from 1838) and the Variations brillantes on the German Folk Song 'Du, du liegst mir im Herzen' op.22 in E major (1840) combine the noblest singing style with virtuoso attitude and, while requiring great skill, are of benefit to the performer. Theobald Boehm was born on 9th April 1794, the son of a goldsmith, who also taught him his trade. Musically inclined, he learnt to play the flute as well as the popular flageolet. His teacher Johann Nepomuk Capeller, a solo flutist in the Munich court orchestra reputed for his improvements to flute construction, taught the boy so successfully that he was appointed 'kgl. bayer. Hofmusiker' (musician to the royal Bavarian court) and first flutist at the royal Isartor Theatre. After 1816 he made trips to Swizerland and France. He wrote his first compositions, among them the Concerto in G major. Between 1821 and 1827 he performed so brilliantly in such important cultural centres as Prague, Vienna, Leipzig, Berlin, Zurich and Venice that he was acclaimed as the 'Paganini of the flute'. In 1831 Boehm went on tour to London, where he made the acquaintance of the famous English flutist Charles Nicholson, whose powerful and expressive sound probably led him to further technical-acoustic study. Boehm died at an advanced age on 25th Novemer 1881 in his hometown Munich.
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