Raymond Meylan composer / arranger

Raymond Meylan , born on September 22, 1924 in Onex , is a Vaudois flautist and composer .
Raymond Meylan began playing the flute at the age of 11. He studied mathematics in Lausanne , where he obtained a license in 1947 before devoting himself to the flute. In 1948, he received a grant from the Swiss Association of Musicians , which enabled him to continue his flute studies with Marcel Moyse at the Paris Conservatory . It was perfected with Ruggero Gerlin in Siena from 1949 to 1951.

From 1948 to 1951, Raymond Meylan was a member of the Stadtorchester Winterthur under the direction of Hermann Scherchen and Victor Desarzens. He then became solo flute at the Associazione Alessandro Scarlatti in Naples (1951 to 1954), to the Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan (1954 to 1958), and finally, from 1958 to 1970, at the Radio-Orchester Beromünster in Zurich. From 1970 to 1989, he was solo flautist of the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Basel . During his retirement, he continued to give numerous concerts and to train students of all levels. Wishing to complete his training, he enrolled in 1961 at the University of Zurich where he studied musicology with Kurt von Fischer, Gregorian chant.with Pater Roman Bannwart OSB, mathematics with Bartel Van den Waerden, and the ancillary sciences of history with Dietrich Schwarz. In 1967 he obtained the degree of Doctor of Letters, and from 1968 to 1977 taught at the musicology seminar at the University of Zurich.

We owe to Raymond Meylan a work on the transverse flute, published in 1974 and translated into Italian, Dutch, English and German: The flute: the main lines of its development from prehistory to the present day . He is also a composer and writes several cadenzas, including one for Mozart's oboe concerto KV 314. He was interested in improvised ornamentation of baroque music and signed the Kadenzen und Verzierungsvorschläge zur konzertanten Oboenmusik des 18. Jahrhunderts .