Marcel Moyse masterclass in Copenhagen 1969

In 1969 the French flute legend Marcel Moyse visited Copenhagen and gave a master class at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. My former professor, Poul Birkelund, had invited his own teacher from the 1930ies Paris to teach his students, and was foresighted enough to have some of the classes recorded on open reel video tapes.
Many years later I was a student with Birkelund, and he told me about the tapes, by then (around 1985) tucked away in the basement of the academy - there were no longer any playback possibilities on the premises. I borrowed the tapes and had VHS copies made - and the result is a unique video documentation of Moyse teaching. The final 25 minutes of the material is Toke Lund Christiansen, for many years co-principal flute of the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, playing the Taffanel candenza to the first movement of the Mozart G Major concerto for Moyse.
“I am not here for this!”, Moyse says in the beginning, just after a recorder student has finished playing. And he continues to differ between the “Flûte a bec” and the “Flûte professionelle”. Those were the days …
Please enjoy a truly historic document!

[@sebbene08]

So good to hear his voice again....

[@flutechannel]

Incredible to see a master like this and talk about the flute. Very happy you got to share this now! Everyone take a listen and pay attention a lot of great information. Again Thank you Henrik!

[@sebbene08]

THIS IS WONDERFUL! Thank You!!

[@richardbomar1067]

I studied with him for two summers in Vermont. He was an amazing musician and teacher.

[@gcg8187]

Dude that's crazy, do you know what James galway learned from Mr moyse?

[@1Flyingfist]

😯😎

[@Jack_Sparrow17]

@@gcg8187 Moyse was the number one flutist of the 20th century.

[@nicolasvallette6324]

Thank you Henrik for that incredible testimony about our flute french school!
It is really precious and very interesting!

[@rodolfovazquez8144]

Wow! Thank you so much for showing this video. Moyse is a great teacher.

[@satokosorai]

What a fantastic video!!! Thank you very much, Henrik!! Moyse is a true great flutist !!! This is true music.

[@alexandreeisenberg5884]

Fantastic!

[@tomgreene2282]

What a man ! Galway had a wonderful ring to his playing ...probably from this man's example.
Many thanks for upload...did he play a Couesnon flute...one of his pupils played in Dublin long ago.

[@ricardoayala2023]

Thanks a lot Mr. Engelbrecht for sharing this video.

[@marialys873]

Thank you so much for this video!

[@raananeylon4867]

Thank you!!!

[@xiaotong197]

Thank you

[@aliciapereira415]

¡Formidable documento! Gracias por compartir. No sé porqué solo se puede poner subtítulos autogenerados en francés cuando el está hablando inglés. ¿Se podría habilitar el autogenerado en inglés o agregar subtítulos en otros idiomas?

[@escuchapee]

Por favor como obtengo subtitulado este video. Ayúdenme tengo 50 años y empoezo a aprender. Este señor es un maestro. Gracias. Saludos desde Perú.

[@erlanddiaz8505]

No existe el vídeo subtitulado. Lamentablemente

[@olebirgerpedersen]

Jeg husker den dag tydeligt. Det var morsomt at faa gennemgaaet Taffanels cadence af en elev af Taffanel. Jeg husker i Uelsen havde jeg lejlighed til at gennemgaa flere Gaubert värker med Andre Jaunet Mindre restrektivt, men maaske lidt mere interessant. M .M. er et värre snakkehoved og man skal som deltager have en god taalmodighed.

[@sassierover]

Wish I could make out what he's saying....

[@1Flyingfist]

I thought I heard "mais, oui oui" a moment ago. 🙈

[@fluterific00]

What's the name of the piece at the end? Would love to learn it.

[@HenrikengelbrechtDk]

It's the Donjon candenza for Mozart's G major concerto ...

[@fluterific00]

​@@HenrikengelbrechtDk thankk you.

[@enildemday5294]

I wish he could speak English like he played the flute...