The British Musical Biography

[E] Pratten, Robert Sidney, flute player
and composer, born at Bristol, January 23,
1824. Performed when a boy at concerts in
Bath, Bristol, etc. First flute in orchestra of
Theatre Royal, Dublin ; at Ro^-al Italian
Opera, London, 1846 ; Sacred Harmonic
Society ; Philharmonic Society, etc. He
studied for a time in Germany. He died at
Ramsgate, February 10, 1868."

[W] Works. — Fantasias, arrangements, studies,
solos, etc. for flute, in combination with other
instruments. Complete Series of Exercises
for the Siccama Flute. Complete Series of
Scales and Exercises, carefully fingered for
Pratten's Perfected Flute, n.d. Flute Tutors
(one published by Boosey & Co., and another
by Edwin Ashdown).

[+] His wife. Madam Sidney Prattex, is a
well-known guitar-player, and writer for that
instrument. She has issued Solos for the
Guitar, a series of about 2.50 original and
selected pieces ; Numerous Divertimentos on
original and selected themes ; Guitar School,
being complete Instructions for Modern Guitar
Playing in the common key ; Learning the
Guitar Simplified.. Also a book of Instruc-
tions for the Gigliera (wood and straw instru-
ment).

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