Giulio Briccialdi

Giulio Briccialdi, 1842 portrait lithograph by Josef Kriehuber

Giulio Briccialdi (1/2 March 1818 – 17 December 1881)[1] was an Italian virtuoso flautist and composer, a technical innovator on his instrument and a professor of music.

Briccialdi was born in Terni. He is commonly credited for inventing the B-flat (or "Briccialdi") thumb key for the Boehm flute,[2] but scholarship suggests that the innovation was Boehm's first.[3] He died in Florence.

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  2. ^ Toff, Nancy (1996). The Flute Book: A Complete Guide for Students and Performers at Google Books, page 56. New York: Oxford University Press US. ISBN 0-19-510502-8.
  3. ^ theinstrumenta (2019-04-04). "Bb Mechanism". The Instrumentalist. Retrieved 2024-11-10.