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A flautist, '''flutist''', or '''flute-player''' is a Musician who plays the Flute . NAMING CONTROVERSY: 'FLAUTIST' ''VS.'' 'FLUTIST' The choice of "flautist" (from the Italian ''flautista'', from ''flauto'', and adopted due to 18th century Italian influence) versus "flutist" is the source of minor dispute among players of the instrument. "Flutist" is the earlier term in the English language, dating from at least 1603 (the earliest quote cited by the '' Oxford English Dictionary ''), while "flautist" is not recorded before 1860, when it was used by Nathaniel Hawthorne in '' The Marble Faun ''. While the print version of the ''OED'' does not indicate any regional preference for either form, the online ''Compact OED'' characterizes "flutist" as an American usage.1 Richard Rockstro in his three volume treatise ''The Flute''Richard Shepherd Rockstro, ''The Flute'' (Fritz Knuf - Buren, The Netherlands, 1986 {Link without Title} ) written in England in 1890 uses "flute-player". The US player and writer Nancy Toff, in her ''The Flute Book'', devotes more than a page to the subject, commenting that she is asked "Are you a flutist or a flautist?" on a weekly basis. She says, "Ascribe my insistence either to a modest lack of pretension or to etymological evidence; the result is the same." She describes in some detail the etymology of words for "flute". (She is an editor for Oxford University Press. {Link without Title} ) She compares ''OED'', Fowler's ''''. Fowler says "flautist" has displaced "flutist" in usage, though "flautist" is not so popular in the USA. She prefers "flutist" personally and etymologically.Nancy Toff, ''The Flute Book'' (Scribners, 1985), "Flutist or Flautist?" pp. xiv-xv The first edition of the OED lists ''fluter'' as dating from circa 1400 and Fowler's Modern English Usage''Fowler's Modern English Usage'' (Oxford University Press, 1965) "flautist, fluter, flutist" p. 201 states that "there seems no good reason" why ''flautist'' should have prevailed over ''fluter'' or ''flutist''. However, according to Webster's Dictionary of English Usage,''Webster's Dictionary of English Usage'' (Merriam-Webster Inc., 1989), "flautist, flutist" p. 452) ''flautist'' is the preferred term in British English, and while both terms are used in American English ''flutist'' is "by far the more common choice". James Galway summed up the way many players of the flute feel about "flautist", saying, "I am a flute player, not a flautist. I don't have a flaut, and I've never flauted." To the keen ear of the linguist the Dipthong embedded in flautist sounds true. NOTABLE FLAUTISTS
: Young Flautist, or The Fifer, 1866]] Notable Jazz Flute players include:
Notable innovators/Contemporary composers Notable Progressive Rock players include:
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