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B. Mohr was both a skilled violinist and acclaimed flutist from Frankfurt, active during the years 1833-1854. The earliest record for Mohr lists him as second flute at the National Theaater in Frankfurt; he was a member of the orchestra at least through 1841. He collaborated in 1842 in a noted series of soirées in London which premiered the string quartets op. 18 by Molique; in these soirées Molique played first, violin, and B. Mohr, second violin. Mohr returned to Germany after this tour to England, and was active until at least 1854, and possibly even 1874. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Karoline Przyrembel is one of the very few touring flutists working in the first half of the nineteenth century. She was a native of Warsaw. She first appears in concert in Poland in 1830, then in Brno (Brünn) in 1831. The article traces her touring and performances through western Europe during the 1830's, and her eventual deportation into Russia in 1848 in the course of her effort to return to Warsaw, ending with an escape to Berlin. Gives details regarding her connection with Ludwig Spohr, who wrote a testimonial for her in 1832, and to whom she wrote asking for help in 1848. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Coninx (Louis-Joseph), ca. 1803-1876, flutist/composer, active Paris. L. Coninx, as he was customarily known, is among the most obscure of the flutists active in Paris during the golden age of the flute in the first half of the nineteenth century. The only time at which his full name is given was in the various news items reporting his death, at the age of seventy-three, in 1876, at which time he is invariably named as Louis Joseph Coninx. He produced 64 numbered opuses, as well as additional works without opus number. Few of these are remembered today. Rucquoy (Frédéric-Auguste), 1829-1910, flutist/composer, born in Lierre, professionally active as professor of flute at the Conservatory of Strasbourg. Among the hundreds of works for flute and piano included at the International Music Score Library Project is the Echoes of Alsace, there attributed to Frédéric Rucquoy (1852-ca. 1915). In fact, the work is the only surviving piece by the elder Rucquoy, more distinguished than his son, and with a more notable career. Both are pictured in the 1906 anthology of photographs of notable flutist, the Portraits und Biographien hervorragender Flöten-Virtuosen, -Dilettanten und -Komponisten issued in Berlin by Adolf Goldberg. Rie, Bernard, 1838-1910, pianist/composer, born Prague, active Paris. Among the many musical emigrés to be trained in Prague in the nineteenth century was Bernhard Rie. He was one of ten children to be born to David Israel Rie (himself born Dec. 3, 1805) and his wife Lotti (Charlotte, Carolina) Sobotka, b. 1806. Bernhard was the next to youngest of the surviving children. He produced almost fifty numbered opuses during a successful career as composer and virtuoso, and was one of a number of Jewish piano virtuosos born and trained in Prague in the early nineteenth century, along with Moscheles and Tedesco. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]