Robert Bigio flute pages
Articles on the flute
Christopher Steward’s early flute recordings
Gilbert Jespersen
Gilbert Jespersen (1890–1975),
often known by his full name of
Holger Gilbert Jespersen,
studied at the Royal Danish
Academy of Music and then in
Paris, where his teachers were
Adolphe Hennebains and
Philippe Gaubert. Jespersen was
the dedicatee of Carl Nielsen’s
Flute Concerto and, as a member
of the Wind Quintet of the Royal
Danish Orchestra, of Nielsen’s
Wind Quintet.
Photograph of Gilbert Jespersen courtesy of Mogens Friis, whose website, www.flutist.dk,
is available in Danish and English.
Friedrich Kuhlau: Quintet in D major
Op.51 no.1. (Finale). Gilbert
Jespersen, flute; Erling Bloch, violin;
Hans Kassow and Lavard Friisholm,
viola; Asger Lund-Christiansen,
cello. Recording made in 1950.
