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Tulou 5e Grand Solo op. 79

J.-L. Tulou Cinquième Grand Solo op. 79 Anne Pustlauk, flute Toby Sermeus, piano 2022 The 5th Grand Solo, composed by Jean-Louis Tulou, was played in the 1839 concours at the Paris Conservatoire. That year’s concours saw two great talents: Hélène-Jean Joseph Miramont and Charles-Oscar Allard. Both were 15 and 16 years old and immediately won a first price. Jean-Théodore Pilliard won a second price. There is only little information about the life of Miramont. Born in a little town at the border of Spain, he moved to Lyon after his studies where he took over the post as flute player in the opera orchestra. This post must have been paid poorly though, as in 1851 he wrote to the director: „Dear Sir, I have a stomach damaged by the unhealthy and insufficient food to which the lack of payment has condemned me for so long. I do not want to alarm the maternal solicitude of the director by letting him know that he is putting me on the verge of dying of hunger; however, that is my situation. So I want to postpone this unpleasant moment as long as possible, and for this reason I am conserving my strength and taking a little rest. I have the honour to greet you. A victim of Article 11, Miramont“ Charles Allard, on the contrary, led a quite successful and exciting life. After his studies he travelled to Madrid and Puerto Rico where he taught the flute, played concerts with 14-year-old Adelina Patti and toured with the American pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk. In the 1860s he moved back to France and conducted a harmony orchestra nearby Paris. At his funeral, in 1895, many friends, pupils and colleagues accompanied him on his last journey, among them Paul Taffanel. The five-keyed flute played in this recording was made by the Godfroy aîné workshop. It has the serial number 4004 and was made around 1836. The flute could be called typical French as it owns characteristics that are found in many French flutes of that period: a soft low and shining high octave which plays easily until C4, it is very easy to play fast staccato passages throughout the range. It has a D-foot, and keys for Bb, G#, F (no long F), D# and for the C-trill. Fork fingerings work very well, therefore keys have to be applied almost exclusively for Bb, G#, F of the low octave and the B-C-trill (the F-key should of course be used for the F#s key-fingerings). The piano is a 1854 Pleyel.