Jean Pierre Rampal wasn’t always slated to be the guy who would bring the flute back to prominence on the solo stage. As a boy, Rampal was an extraordinary flutist. Still, his father who was a flute ...

Flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal is one of the most recorded classical musicians of all time. He had a keen interest in Baroque music and made it his mission to recover flute compositions from that era.

Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal (7 January 1922 – 20 May 2000) was a French flautist. He has been personally "credited with returning to the flute the popularity as a solo classical instrument it had not ...