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Georges Barboteu
April 1, 1924 – September 30, 2006 · aged 82 Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]
Georges Yves Barboteu (1 April 1924 – 30 September 2006) was a French horn player and composer. He was the son of a horn teacher at the Conservatoire d'Alger, he himself started playing the horn at the age of nine, and won first prize at eleven. He joined the Algiers Radio Symphony Orchestra at the age of fourteen and then the Orchestre national de France in 1948. He entered the conservatoire de Paris in 1950, where he received the honorary prize that same year. In 1951 he won first prize in the Geneva International Music Competition. He was the main horn player of the Orchestre Lamoureux and from 1969 onwards of the Orchestre de Paris. He taught his instrument at the Conservatoire from 19…
