New edition of classic study includes Lorenzo's three addenda and new bibliographic and biographic material.

Here is a veritable encyclopedia of the flute. During his long professional career, De Lorenzo has found the time to do intensive research in the field of the flute throughout the world. This research, combined with his own personal associations with the greats of the flute world, provided him with the material for this book. There will here be found hundreds of biographies of flutists and composers of flute music (amateur as well as professional), some of which can be found in no other existing dictionary of music. There is here a history of the instrument and the story of its evolution at the hands of the great instrument makers. There is a storehouse of information about the flute and flutists from ancient times to today, studded with odd facts, unusual facts, illuminating facts, as well as a veritable mine of anecdotes. This, then, is the indispensable book for every lover of the flute. It is also an inexhaustible source of information and entertainment for every lover of good music.