Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal was a French flautist. He has been personally "credited with returning to the flute the popularity as a solo classical instrument it had not held since the 18th century."
Claude Bolling was a French jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and occasional actor.
Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period. His early works were strongly influenced by the impressionism of Debussy and Ravel, while he later turned toward neoclassicism.
Robert Marcel Casadesus was a renowned 20th-century French pianist and composer. He was the most prominent member of a distinguished musical family, being the nephew of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus, husband of Gaby Casadesus, and father of Jean Casadesus.
The Sonate pour flûte et piano, FP 164, by Francis Poulenc, is a three-movement work for flute and piano, written in 1957.
Louise-Marie Simon, pen name Claude Arrieu, was a prolific French composer. She wrote hundreds of works in varying formats, including stage works, concert works, and movie scores. She was also a teacher, and worked as a producer and assistant head of sound effects at French Radio.
Steven Dann is a Canadian violist.
Jean Derome is a French Canadian avant-garde saxophonist, flautist, and composer. A prominent figure in the Montreal musique actuelle scene, Derome has been a member of experimental, jazz, and rock groups, and has appeared on over 30 albums, including seven solo albums. He has written scores for over 30 films and co-founded Ambiances Magnétiques, a Canadian musical collective and independent record label.
Alexis Fernand Félix Jean Rivier was a French composer of classical music in the neoclassical style.
Jasmine Choi is a Korean-born flutist, educated in the US, living in Austria.
Joseph Alan Gilman is an American jazz pianist from Sacramento, California. He has taught at American River College and Sacramento State University in Sacramento and the Brubeck Institute in Stockton, California.
Akio Yashiro was a Japanese composer.
Daniel Humair is a Swiss drummer, composer, and painter.
Marcel Bitsch was a French composer, teacher and analyst. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and also was professor of counterpoint there.
Miguel del Águila is an Uruguayan-born, American composer of contemporary classical music.
The Wind Quintet, Op. 26, is a chamber music composition by Arnold Schoenberg, composed in 1923–24. It is one of the earliest of Schoenberg's compositions to use twelve-tone technique.
Patrick Zimmerli is an American saxophonist, composer, arranger, and record producer.
Raymond Guiot is a French flautist, pianist and composer. He has also trained many flutists throughout the world.
Bruno Mathieu is a French organist. He studied organ with Jean Langlais, Suzanne Chaisemartin, Jean Guillou, Marie-Claire Alain, and composition with Pierre Lantier, as well as piano with France Clidat and Gisèle Kühn. He is the organist of the Church of Saint-Justin de Levallois-Perret.
