Carl Dolmetsch

Carl Frederick Dolmetsch (1911–1997) CBE[1] was a French instrumentalist who specialised in the recorder.

[2] The son of Arnold Dolmetsch, he was born in Fontenay-sous-Bois on 23 August 1911 but lived in England from 1914.

He took part in the first of his father's Haslemere Festival of Early Music, and from then on throughout his life.

During the war it produced plastic aircraft parts, and when peace returned Dolmetsch began producing huge numbers of plastic recorders for use in schools.

Dolmetsch gave his first Wigmore Hall recital in February 1939, with another later that year.