List of oboists
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An oboist (formerly hautboist) is a musician who plays the oboe or any oboe family instrument, including the oboe d'amore, cor anglais or English horn, bass oboe and piccolo oboe or oboe musette.
The following is a list of notable past and present professional oboists, with indications when they were/are known better for other professions in their own time. Oboists with an asterisk (*) have biographies in the online version of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
Historical oboists
Baroque period 1600–1760
Francesco Barsanti (1690–1772), Italian * (composer)
Alessandro Besozzi (1702–1773), Italian
Antonio Besozzi (1714–1781), Italian
Cristoforo Besozzi (1661–1725), Italian
Giuseppe Besozzi (1686–1760), Italian
Paolo Girolamo Besozzi (1713–1778), Italian
Mateo Bissoli (Bisioli) (c. 1711 – 1780), Italian
Esprit Philippe Chédeville (1696–1762), French *
Nicolas Chédeville (1705–1782), French *
Pierre Chédeville (1694–1725), French *
André Danican Philidor (c. 1652–1730), French * (music librarian)
Anne Danican Philidor (1681–1728), French
Jean Danican Philidor (c. 1620 – 1679), French
Michel Danican Philidor (1580–1651), French
Pierre Danican Philidor (1681–1731), French
John Ernest Galliard (c. 1675 – 1747), German *
Johann Caspar Gleditsch (1684–1747), German ("Bach's oboist")
Peter Glösch (c. 1685 – 1754), German
Jean Hotteterre (c. 1610 – 1691), French * (instrument maker) (one of several oboists in the family)
Martin Hotteterre (1635–1712), French * (instrument maker)
Nicolas Hotteterre (1637–1694), French *
Johann Christian Jacobi (1719–1784), German (oboist at Janitsch's "Freitags-Akademien")
Jean Christian Kytch (died c.
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