Name Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin Died 1768, Paris, France | Role Composer | |
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Similar People Michel Blavet, Eckart Haupt, Johann Joachim Quantz, Musica Antiqua Koln, Michel Corrette | ||
Pierre Gabriel Buffardin: Flute Concert in e minor - Wilbert Hazelzet, flute. Musica Antiqua Köln
Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin (Marseille, ca. 1690 – Paris, 13 January 1768) was a French flutist and composer of the late Baroque period. Born in Provence, Buffardin was a flute soloist at the court of the Elector of Saxony in Dresden from 1715 to 1749. He was the teacher of flautists Johann Joachim Quantz, Pietro Grassi Florio, and Johann Sebastian Bach's elder brother, Johann Jacob Bach, whom he met in Constantinople sometime before 1712.
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- Pierre Gabriel Buffardin Flute Concert in e minor Wilbert Hazelzet flute Musica Antiqua Kln
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Buffardin's Sonata for Flute is the only work which it is certain he wrote. His Concerto a cinq in E minor was written for his virtuosic student Quantz, who said of Buffardin : "Il ne jouait que des choses rapides: car c'est en cela qu'excellait mon maitre." (Translation: "He only played fast pieces; for in that my master excelled.")