Philibert Rebillé ''dit'' Philbert (also ''Philibert'', 1639 – after March 1717) was a French

flautist The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

. He is credited with the introduction of the one-keyed

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to France in around 1667.Ardal Powell, ''The Flute'' (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002). , p. 61 He was made a

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musician by

Louis XIV of France LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the List of longest-reign ...

under the title of ''Musette de Poitou''. His wife was involved in the ''

Affair of the Poisons The Affair of the Poisons (, ) was a major murder scandal in France during the reign of King Louis XIV. Between 1677 and 1682, a number of prominent members of the aristocracy were implicated and sentenced on charges of poisoning and witchcr ...

'' and was executed in 1679 for having poisoned her first husband, M. Brunet, in order to marry Philbert.

References

* Jonathan Wainwright, Peter Holman - ''From Renaissance to Baroque: change in instruments and instrumental music in the seventeenth century'' (Ashgate Publishing, Ltd (2005) ) * Anne Somerset - ''The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV'' (St. Martin's Press (October 12, 2003) ) * Gérard Gailly, ''Philibert, flûtiste du Grand roi, revue des deux mondes''. (15 JANVIER 1960), pp. 320–335 (16 pages). 6c76780ad276f5d6b9aecb0067cfed34.pdf (revuedesdeuxmondes.fr)

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1639 births 1717 deaths French classical flautists People associated with the Affair of the Poisons {{flautist-stub