Peter-Lukas Graf Explained

Birth Date:	5 January 1929
Birth Place:	Zürich, Switzerland
Background:	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Occupation:	Soloist, conductor, teacher
Instrument:	Flute

Peter-Lukas Graf (born 5 January 1929) is a Swiss flautist born in Zürich, Switzerland. He was a pupil of André Jaunet, and later attended the Paris Conservatoire, where he won first prize with Marcel Moyse and Roger Cortot. Besides playing the flute both in orchestras and as a soloist, he is a conductor, and spent several years exclusively as an orchestra and opera conductor. He is also a teacher, and has taught at the Basel Music Academy since 1973 and at the Music Academy Accademia Lorenzo Perosi in Biella. Graf played at James Galway's wedding in May 1972.^[1] In 2005 Graf received an honorary doctorate from the Academy of Music in Kraków.^[2]

Discography

Peter-Lukas Graf has made many recordings in his career.^[3]

Solo flute

• Johann Sebastian Bach, Berio and others (Claves 50-8005).
• Heiner Reitz (Vo.II) 12 Caprices (Telos Music TLS 026).
• Peter Mieg, Les plaisirs de Rued (Claves P 610).

Flute and orchestra

• Luigi Boccherini, Cimarosa, Gluck (Jecklin 506-2).
• Devienne, Jacques Ibert, (Claves 50-501).
• Krommer (Grand Prix International du Disque) (Claves 50-8203).
• Mozart (Claves 50-8505).
• Mozart: Concert for flute and harp (Claves 50-0208).
• Quantz, Stamitz, Stalder (Claves 50-808-9).
• Pergolesi, Piccinni, Mercadante (Claves 50-9103).
• Vivaldi (Claves 50-8807).
• Reinecke, Carl Gottlieb Reissiger: Romantic flute concertos (Claves 50-2108).
• Krommer

Sinfonia concertante for flute, clarinete and violin (Tudor 757).

Flute and harpsichord

• Johann Sebastian Bach (Claves 50-0401).
• Johann Sebastian Bach (Jecklin 4400/1-2).
• Haendel (Claves 50-0238).

Flute and piano

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Las cinco sonatas auténticas. (Claves 50-2511).
• Schubert, Widor, Martinu, Poulenc: Clásicos para flauta Vol. 1. (Claves 50-9306).
• Reinecke, Milhaud, Hindemith, Frank Martin, Prokofiev: Clásicos para flauta, Vol. 2. (Claves 50-9307).
• Chaminade, Hüe, Gaubert: Joueurs de flûte (Claves 50-0704).
• Joplin (Ragtimes) (Claves 50-8715).
• Kuhlau: Sonatas (Claves 50-8705).
• Czerny, Kuhlau: Virtuoso flute (Jecklin 577-)

Flute and guitar

• Bach, Schubert, Mozart: Transcriptions (Claves 50-9705).
• Bach, Chopin, Ibert, Mozart, Ravel, Villa-Lobos: Miniatures (Claves 50-2013).
• Carulli: 6 Serenades (Claves 50-8304).
• Giuliani, Carulli, Ibert, Ravel, Willy Burkhard (Claves 50-0408).

Flute and harp

• Rossini, Donizetti, Louis Spohr, Paganini, Fauré, Lauber: Duos (Claves 50-0708).
• Debussy, Sonata No. 2. Ravel, Introducción y Allegro: French Masterpieces. (Claves 50-0280).
• Peter Mieg, Morceau élégant (Claves P 610 y Jecklin Edition JS 314-2))

Chamber music

• F.Bach, Briccialdi: "2 flutes J.S.Bach, Kuhlau, Doppler: Trios 2 fl/piano (Claves 50-2006).
• Beethoven

Triosonata, Serenade in D major (flute, violin and viola) (Claves 50-8403).

• Reger

2 Serenades (flute, violin and viola) (Claves 50-8104).

• Krommer

3 flute quartets op. 17/92/93 (Claves 50-8708)

• Peter Mieg

Quintuor (flute, 2 violins, chello and harpsichord) (Claves P 610)

• Mozart

4 quartets Carmina Quartet (Claves 50-9014).

• Mozart

4 quartets (Ex Libris CD-6087).

• Rossini

4 quartets (Nr. 1, 2, 4, 6). (Claves 50-8608).

• Bach

The Musical Offering (Claves 50-0198).

• Bach, Haendel, Rameau, Scarlatti, Martin, Ravel and Albert Roussel: Song Recital (K. Graf, soprano) (Claves 50-0604).
• Bach, Haendel, Quantez, Couperin, Vivaldi and Lotti: Baroque chamber music for flute, oboe and harpsichord, P.L. Graf, Goritzki and Dähler. (Claves 50-0404).

Notes and References

1. J. Galway & L. Bridges The Man with the Golden Flute: Sir James, a Celtic Minstrel p. 113
2. Web site: Doctorates honoris causa - Cracow Music Academy . 20 November 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110325011244/http://www.amuz.krakow.pl/en/29/7/25/Doctorates-honoris-causa . 25 March 2011 .
3. Web site: Peter-Lukas Graf. www.peterlukasgraf.ch.