The Hautboys Reed Book (german/english)

Cincise Reed Making Manual for Baroque Oboe

written by Marianne Richert Pfau and Björn Lindermann

These instructions for baroque oboe reed making are very well-designed.
Clearly explained step-by-step, easy comprehensive with many picture. Very interesting for modern oboists who want to start with the baroque oboe and who can find a lot of information about the specifics of mouthpieces for historical instruments.
And even amateurs and enthusiasts without previous knowledge will be able to make their own reeds based on the explanations and instructions.
Overall, a book that I can happily recommend.

Wolfgang Kube, Berlin


This book provides clearly and easy-to-understand instructions for baroque oboe reed making. The basics are explained step by step.Numerous photos and graphics encourages to recreate!

Prof. Katharina Arfken, Basel


Die Autoren / The Authors

Marianne Richert Pfau, Ph. D., is Professor of Musicology at the University of San Diego in California, USA.There she teaches music history and literature courses, produces international Early Music Festivals, and directs the "Angelus'" Sacred Early Music Concert Series at USD.She also has an active performance career as baroque oboist in the US and in Europe.

M. Richert Pfau holds diplomas from the Musikhochschule Hamburg and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama London, and then earned her Ph.D. in historical musicology at SUNY-Stony Brook in New York. She has published a complete edition of Hildegard von Bingen's Symphonia chants, and her monograph, with Stefan Morent, entitled "Hildegard von Bingen: Der Klang des Himmels" (Böhlau Verlag, 2005), has garnered enthusiastic reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. More recently, she has begun publishing 18th-century music for baroque oboe hidden in European archives (www.primalamusica.com).

In the US, M. Richert Pfau's performance affiliations are with American Bach Soloists, Jubilate Baroque Orchestra and California Bach Society in San Francisco, Musica Angelica and Corona del Mar Baroque Festival in Los Angeles, Trinity Consort in Oregon, and Ensemble Rebel in New York. In Europe she has appeared with Musica Alta Ripa, L'Arco, Corona Musica Kassel, Cythara Ensemble Hamburg, and Accademia dell'Arcadia Poznan. She directs her own ensemble, toutes suites, reviving forgotten Baroque music and transforming it "from (dusty archival) page to (the modern) stage".

Hautbois after Schlegel (c. 1720), Sand Dalton 2003.


Björn Lindemann, Ph.D., is a molecular biologist and amateur oboe player. In addition to playing the "modern" oboe he became interested in the performance of baroque music on historical instruments and he also began to play the baroque oboe as a student. Björn Lindemann played in numerous amateur orchestras and ensembles during his academic education in biology and physics at the University of Göttingen and during his subsequent career in the biotechnology industry. He owns a collection of excellent copies of baroque oboes, oboes d'amore, tailles and oboes da caccia by Steenbergen, Klenig, Schlegel, Eichentopf, Denner and Stanesby.