right|thumb|250px|Two [[Oboe musette|musette players from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, 13th century]]

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

right|thumb|250px|Oboist – etching and print by [[:de:Manuel de Rosas|Johann Christoph Weigel (1661–1726)]]

  • 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) ( 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 ( 1620 – 1679), French
  • (1580–1651), French
  • (1681–1731), French
  • John Ernest Galliard ( 1675 – 1747), German *
  • Johann Caspar Gleditsch (1684–1747), German ("Bach's oboist")
  • Peter Glösch ( 1685 – 1754), German
  • Jean Hotteterre ( 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 1738), Dutch ("Handel's oboist")
  • François La Riche (1662 – after 1733), Flemish *
  • Jacques Loeillet (1685–1748), Flemish *
  • Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (1680–1730), Flemish *
  • Jacques Paisible ( 1656 – 1721), French (oboist in Robert Cambert orchestra which moved to London in 1673) <!-- he also played recorder -->
  • Joan Baptista Pla ( 1720 – 1773), Spanish *
  • Josep Pla (1728–1762), Spanish *
  • Manuel Pla ( 1725 – 1766), Spanish *
  • Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697–1763), Italian *
  • Johann Christian Richter (1689–1744), German

Classical period 1730–1820

right|thumb|250px|Portrait of an unknown oboist by anonymous painter, 1st half 18th century

  • Sante Aguilar ( 1734 – 1808), Italian
  • Christian Frederik Barth (1787–1861), Danish
  • Christian Samuel Barth (1735–1809), German *
  • Frederik Philip Carl August Barth (1774–1804), Danish *
  • Georg Benda (1722–1795), Czech * (composer)
  • Carlo Besozzi (1738–1791), Italian
  • Francesco Besozzi (1766–1816), Italian
  • Gaetano Besozzi (1725–1794), Italian
  • Girolamo Besozzi ( 1745 – 1788), Italian
  • Friedrich Braun (1759–1824), German *
  • Franz Joseph Czerwenka (1759–1835), Czech-Austrian ("Beethoven's oboist")
  • Georg Druschetzky (1745–1819), Czech *
  • Giuseppe Ferlendis (1755–1810), Italian <!-- 1802 death date is dismissed in the Grove's bio --> *
  • Josef Fiala (1748–1816), Czech * ("Mozart's oboist 1")
  • Johann Christian Fischer (1733–1800), German *
  • Joseph François Garnier (1755–1825), French *
  • Michel Joseph Gebauer (1763–1812), French *
  • Gottlieb Graupner (1767–1836), German-American
  • William Herschel (1738–1822), German (astronomer) (before 1765 primarily oboist, only later an astronomer)
  • François Jadin (1731–1790), French *
  • Carl Khym (1770–after 1819), Czech *
  • Ludwig August Lebrun (1746–1790), German *
  • Ignace Malzat (1757–1804), Austrian (probably wrote the "Haydn" oboe concerto) *
  • ( 1723 – 1804), Italian *
  • Carl Ludwig Matthes (1751–?), German
  • John Parke (1745–1829), English *
  • William Thomas Parke (1762–1847), English *
  • Giuseppe Prota (1737–1807), Italian *
  • Friedrich Ramm (1744–1813), German ("Mozart's oboist 2")
  • Georg Triebensee (1746–1813), Bohemian *
  • Josef Triebensee (1772–1846), Bohemian * (composer)
  • (1745–1801), Bohemian *
  • Thomas Vincent (1720–1783), English *

Romantic period 1815–1910

right|thumb|250px|Johann Friedrich Diethe (1810–1891), oboist of the [[Gewandhausorchester by C. Reimers]]

right|thumb|250px|The Oboe Player (Benjamin Sharp) by [[Thomas Eakins, 1903]]

  • Apollon Barret (1804–1879), French *
  • Christian Frederik Barth (1787–1861), Danish *
  • Richard Baumgärtel (1858–1941), German
  • Félix-Charles Berthélemy (1829–1868), French
  • Carl A.P. Braun (1788–1835), German *
  • Wilhelm Braun (1796–1867), German *
  • Henri Brod (1799–1839), French *
  • Baldassare Centroni ( 1784 – 1860), Italian ("Rossini's oboist")
  • (1832–1881), French
  • Franz Wilhelm Ferling (1796–1874), German
  • (1909–1971), German
  • Georges Gillet (1854–1920), French *
  • Joseph Gungl (1810–1889), Hungarian * (conductor)
  • Johann Peter Heuschkel (1773–1853), German *
  • Ernst Krähmer (1795–1857), German * <!-- active 1815–1857 -->
  • Olivo Krause (1857–1927), Danish
  • Desiré Alfred Lalande (1866–1904), French *
  • Antoine Joseph Lavigne (1816–1886), French
  • Johann Heinrich Luft (1813–1877), German
  • William Malsch (1855–1924), English *
  • Giovanni Paggi (1806–1887), Italian *
  • Antonio Pasculli (1842–1924), Italian * (the "Paganini of the oboe")
  • Charles Reynolds (1843–1916), English
  • Friedrich Ruthardt (1800–1862), German <!--for whom Molique wrote his concertino -->
  • Adolf Rzepko (1825–1892), Polish *
  • Joseph Sellner (1787–1843), Austrian
  • Pedro Soler (1810–1850), Spanish<!-- Pierre-Joachim-Raymond Soler; helped Buffet develop the oboe -->
  • Friedrich-Eugen Thurner (1785–1827), German
  • Charles Triébert (1810–1867), French *
  • Frédéric Triébert (1813–1878), French * (instrument maker)
  • Raoul Triébert (1845 – ), French *
  • Stanislas Verroust (1814–1863), French
  • Gustave Vogt (1781–1870), French *
  • Friedrich Westenholz (1778–1840), German *
  • Carlo Yvon (1798–1854), Italian

== 20th-century oboists == <!-- born before 1925 or deceased before 2000)-->

thumb|right|[[Ralph Gomberg ]]

right|thumb|[[Leon Goosens ]]

right|thumb|Haakon Stotijn, 1961

right|thumb|[[Alexander Wunderer ]]

right|thumb|Attilio Bianco, English horn, 1917

A–L

  • Albert J. Andraud (1884–1975), French-American
  • Rhadames Angelucci (1915–1991), American
  • Alfred Barthel (1871–1957), French
  • Evelyn Barbirolli (born Evelyn Rothwell), (1911–2008), English *
  • Louis Bas (1863–1944), French <!-- first performer and dedicatee of Saint-Saëns sonata; writer of a popular method book -->
  • Etienne Baudo (1903–2001), French
  • (1871–1941), French
  • Robert Bloom (1908–1994), American *
  • Joy Boughton (1913–1963), English
  • Maurice Bourgue (1939–2023), French
  • Leonard Brain (1915–1975), English *
  • Henri de Busscher (1880–1975), Belgian *
  • Natalie Caine (1909–2008), English
  • (1932–1984), French
  • Janet Craxton (1929–1981), English * (Sister of the painter John Craxton)
  • William Criss (1921–1984), American
  • John de Lancie (1921–2002), American *
  • Albert Debondue (1895–1984), French<!-- perhaps best known for his etudes -->
  • Antonio Estévez (1916–1988), Venezuelan * (composer)
  • Alvin Etler (1913–1973), American * (composer)
  • Svend Christian Felumb (1898–1972), Danish
  • Peter Fischer (1924–2004), German <!-- Gewandhausorchester, Leipzig-->
  • Fritz Flemming (born 1872 or 1873; died 1947), German
  • (1905–1984), Canadian
  • Bert Gassman (1911–2004), American
  • Fernand Gillet (1882–1980), French
  • Ruth Gipps (1921–1999), British (composer)
  • Albert Goltzer (1918–2007), American
  • Harold Gomberg (1916–1985), American *
  • Ralph Gomberg (1921–2006), American *
  • Leon Goossens (1897–1988), English *
  • Peter Graeme (1921–2012), English
  • Percy Grainger (1882–1961), Australian-American
  • (1910–1990), Czech *
  • Earnest Harrison (1918–2005), American
  • Hans Kamesch (1901–1975), Austrian
  • Rudolf Kempe (1910–1976), German * (conductor)
  • Bruno Labate (1883–1968), Italian
  • Roland Lamorlette (1894–1960), French
  • Georges Longy (1868–1930), French *

M–Z

  • Terence MacDonagh (1908–1986), British
  • Arno Mariotti (1911–1993), German-born American
  • Josef Marx (1913–1978), German-American *
  • Robert Mayer (1910–1994), American
  • Karl Mayrhofer (1927–1976), Austrian
  • Mitch Miller (1911–2010), American (choir conductor, recording director)
  • Myrtile Morel (1889–1979), French
  • (1904–1983), American
  • Pierre Pierlot (1921–2007), French
  • Giuseppe Prestini (1877–1930), Italian
  • David Reichenberg (1950–1987), American * (also listed under period instrumentalists below)
  • A. Clyde Roller (1914–2005), American
  • Marcel Saillet (1898–1983), Swiss <!--Tonhall Orchestra, a.o. premiered Strauss concerto & Honegger's Concerto da Camera-->
  • Jürg Schaeftlein (1929–1986), Austrian *
  • Riccardo Scozzi (1878–1955), Italian
  • Harry Shulman (1916–1971), American
  • Jerry Sirucek (1922–1996), American
  • (1922–1995), Dutch
  • Václav Smetáček (1906–1986), Czech * (conductor)
  • Robert Sprenkle (1914–1988), American
  • Warren Stannard (1923–1995), American
  • William Grant Still (1895–1978), American * (composer)
  • (1915–1964), Dutch *
  • Jaap Stotijn (1891–1970), Dutch *
  • František Suchý (1902–1977), Czech *
  • Sidney Sutcliffe (1918–2001), Scottish
  • Marcel Tabuteau (1887–1966), French/American *
  • Jiří Tancibudek (1921–2004), Czech-Australian <!-- for whom Martinu wrote his oboe concert -->
  • Giuseppe Tomassini (1915–1987), Italian
  • Lois Wann (1912–1999), American
  • Alexander Wunderer (1877–1955), Austrian

20th-century players of the English horn

<!--Primarily known for playing the English horn-->

  • Engelbert Brenner (1904–1986), Austrian- born American
  • Harry Freedman (1922–2005), Polish-born Canadian (composer)
  • Hans Hadamowsky (1906–1986), Austrian
  • Peter Henkelman (1882–1949), Dutch
  • Leo van der Lek (1908–1999), Dutch
  • John Minsker (1912–2007), American
  • Louis Speyer (1890–1980), French-born American

Contemporary classical oboists

A–B

  • Theodore Baskin (born 1950), American
  • Perry Bauman (1918–2004), American-Canadian
  • William Bennett (1956–2013), American
  • Melvin Berman (1929–2008), American-Canadian
  • (1929–2020), Uruguayan *
  • Neil Black (1932–2016), English
  • Douglas Boyd (born 1960), Scottish
  • Peter Bree (born 1949), Dutch

C–E

right|thumb|[[Niels Eje, 2009]]

  • German Cáceres (born 1954), Salvadoran * (composer)
  • Anthony Camden (1938–2006), English
  • Roy Carter (born 1949), English
  • Joseph Celli (born 1944), American *
  • Nicholas Daniel (born 1962), English
  • Clara Dent (born 1973), German (daughter of Simon Dent)
  • (born 1972), Australian
  • Paolo Di Cioccio (born 1963), Italian
  • Diana Doherty (born 1966), Australian
  • Elaine Douvas (born 1952), American
  • Stuart Edward Dunkel, American
  • Niels Eje (born 1954), Danish
  • Majid Entezami (born 1947), Iranian

F–H

  • John Ferrillo, American
  • Sarah Francis (born 1938), English *
  • Thomas Gallant, American
  • Alfred Genovese (1931–2011), American
  • Ariana Ghez (born 1979), American
  • Burkhard Glaetzner (born 1943), German
  • Wynne Godley (1926–2010), English (economist)
  • Ingo Goritzki (born 1939), German
  • (born 1965), German
  • Jared Hauser (born 1971), American
  • (1940–2023), Dutch
  • Brynjar Hoff (born 1940), Norwegian
  • Heinz Holliger (born 1939), Swiss *
  • Gordon Hunt (born 1950), English

I–L

right|thumb|[[Eugene Izotov ]]

  • (born 1951), Swiss
  • Eugene Izotov (born 1973), Russian-American
  • Helen Jahren (born 1959), Swedish
  • Michael Kamen (1948–2003), American (film score composer)
  • Melvin Kaplan (born 1929), American
  • Jonathan Kelly (born 1969), British <!-- Berlin philharmonic principal -->
  • Alex Klein (born 1964), Brazilian
  • Elizabeth Koch (born 1986), American <!-- Atlanta Symphony -->
  • Lothar Koch (1935–2003), German *
  • (born 1975), Estonian
  • François Leleux (born 1971), French
  • (born 1943), Hungarian
  • Jay Light (born 1940s), American
  • Michael Lisicky (born 1964), American

M–Q

right|thumb|[[Albrecht Mayer making a reed]]

  • John Mack (1927–2006), American
  • Charles Mackerras (1925–2010), Australian (conductor) *

<!-- * Colin Maier (born 1976), Canadian See under "Oboists performing primarily outside classical genres"-->

  • Jean-Claude Malgoire (1940–2018), French
  • Joel Marangella (born 1940s), American
  • Eldevina Materula (born 1982), Mozambican
  • Albrecht Mayer (born 1965), German
  • Malcolm Messiter, English
  • Fumiaki Miyamoto (born 1949) 宮本文昭, Japanese
  • Lucas Macías Navarro (born 1978), Spanish <!--Concertgebouw Orch -->
  • Katherine Needleman (born 1978), American <!-- Baltimore Symphony -->
  • (born 1978), Russian
  • (born 1967), Dutch
  • Ivan Podyomov, (born 1986), Russian
  • (1918–2010), Russian

R–S

right|thumb|[[Bart Schneemann ]]

right|thumb|[[Ray Still, 1980s]]

  • Elizabeth Raum (born 1945), Canadian *
  • Juozas Rimas (born 1942), Lithuanian
  • Joseph Robinson (born 1940), American *
  • Pierre Rolland (1931–2011), Canadian
  • Edwin Roxburgh (born 1937), English *
  • Hansjorg Schellenberger (born 1948), German
  • Bart Schneemann (born 1954), Dutch
  • (born 1970), German
  • Peter Smith, American
  • Toyin Spellman-Diaz, American
  • Ray Still (1920–2014), American
  • Cynthia Steljes (1960–2006), Canadian
  • Daniel Stolper (1935–2020), American
  • Laila Storch (1921–2022), American

T–Z

  • Blair Tindall (1960–2023), American (author)
  • (born 1963), Belgian
  • Allan Vogel (born 1944), American
  • Han de Vries (born 1941), Dutch *
  • Edo de Waart (born 1941), Dutch * (conductor)
  • (born 1958), French
  • Liang Wang (born 1980) 王亮, Chinese <!-- principal of New York Philharmonic -->

right|thumb|[[Jennifer Paull with three Oboe d'amores ]]

  • Judith Weir (born 1954), Scottish (composer) * <!-- Played oboe in UK youth orchestra -->
  • Helmut Winschermann (1920–2021), German (conductor)
  • Richard Woodhams (born 1949), American <!-- principal of Philadelphia Orch -->
  • Omar Zoboli (born 1953), Italian

Contemporary oboists best known for playing English horn (cor anglais) or oboe d'amore

  • Jennifer Paull (born 1944), English (oboe d'amore)

Contemporary oboists best known for playing period instruments

right|thumb|Marcel Ponseele

  • Paul Dombrecht (born 1948), Belgian
  • Paul Goodwin (born 1956), English *
  • Bruce Haynes (1942–2011), American-Canadian *
  • (born 1943), Japanese (conductor)
  • Christopher Palameta (born 1979), Canadian
  • Marcel Ponseele (born 1957), Belgian
  • Susanne Regel (born 1974), German
  • David Reichenberg (1950–1987), American *
  • Hugo Reyne (born 1961), French

Oboists performing primarily outside classical genres

right|thumb|[[Nancy Rumbel ]]

right|thumb|[[Andy Mackay of Roxy Music, 1974]]

As primary instrument

  • Kyle Bruckmann (born 1971), American – free improvisation
  • Lindsay Cooper (1951–2013), English – art rock
  • Jean-Luc Fillon (born 1960s), French – jazz
  • Karl Jenkins (born 1944), Welsh * – jazz
  • Colin Maier (born 1976), Canadian – new classical, celtic
  • Paul McCandless (born 1947), American * – jazz
  • Nancy Rumbel (born 1951), American – new age
  • Sonny Simmons (1933–2021), American – jazz
  • Frank Socolow (1923–1981), American – jazz
  • Kate St John (born 1957), English – art rock, pop
  • Libby Van Cleve (born 1958), American – avant garde
  • Russel Walder (born 1959), American – new age

As secondary instrument

  • Ahmad Alaadeen (1934–2010), American – jazz (saxophonist)
  • Marshall Allen (born 1924), American – jazz (saxophonist)
  • Derek Bell (1935–2002), Irish – folk (harpist)
  • Amanda Brown (born 1965), Australian – indie rock (violinist, guitarist)
  • Garvin Bushell (1902–1991), American – jazz (all reeds)
  • Bob Cooper (1925–1993), American – jazz (saxophone)
  • Julie Fowlis (born 1979), Scottish – Celtic (vocalist)
  • Vinny Golia (born 1946), American – jazz (all woodwinds)
  • Joseph Jarman (1937–2019), American – jazz (clarinetist, saxophonist)
  • Mick Karn (1958–2011), British – rock (multi-instrumentalist)
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1936–1977), American – jazz (multi-instrumentalist)
  • Yusef Lateef (1920–2013), American – jazz (saxophonist, flutist)
  • Giuseppi Logan (1935–2020), American – jazz (multi-instrumentalist)
  • Andy Mackay (born 1946), English – art rock (saxophonist)
  • Charlie Mariano (1923–2009), American – jazz (saxophonist)
  • Makanda Ken McIntyre (1931–2001), American – jazz (saxophonist)
  • Roscoe Mitchell (born 1940), American – jazz (saxophonist)
  • Dewey Redman (1931–2006), American – jazz (saxophonist, suona)
  • Don Redman (1900–1964), American – jazz (clarinetist, saxophonist)
  • Sufjan Stevens (born 1975), American – indie rock (multi-instrumentalist)
  • Kjartan Sveinsson (born 1978), Icelandic – post-rock (keyboardist)

==Shehnai players== <!-- Could add other, non-Western oboes -->

right|thumb|[[Bismillah Khan]]

  • Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan (1939–2016), Indian
  • Bismillah Khan (1916–2006), Indian
  • S. Ballesh (born 1958), Indian

References

Further reading

  • David Lasocki "The French Hautboy in England, 1673–1730" Early Music 16(3) 339–357
  • Alfredo Bernardini "The Oboe in the Venetian Republic, 1692–1797" Early Music 16(3) 372–387
  • Janet K. Page "The Hautboy in London's Musical Life, 1730–1770" Early Music 16(3) 358–371
  • Bruce Haynes "Mozart and the Oboe" Early Music 20(1) 43–63
  • Ryoichi Narusawa (ed. Marc Fink) "A History of Oboe Playing in Japan" (The Double Reed, Vol.27 No.4, International Double Reed Society) 2004
  • The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  • International Double Reed Society website
  • The repertory of the oboe soloist in the 19th century
  • Exhaustive list of active double-reed musicians at oboeinsight.com
  • Important people in oboe history