Václav Nelhýbel (September 24, 1919 – March 22, 1996) was a Czech-American composer, mainly of works for student performers.
[1][2][3] Nelhýbel was born the youngest of five children in Polanka nad Odrou [cs], Ostrava, Czechoslovakia.
The university's Department of Performance Music continues to house his full collection of works.
Although such a flute is now commercially available from Kotato,[5] he wrote of it in hypothetical terms[4] as solving a perceived dilemma at the end of the chorale in his Symphonic Movement (1966); however, his advocating does not seem to have borne fruit.
Interestingly, he advised against such a bridge role being served by either the E♭ soprano flute or G treble flute (at least in concert band settings) due to the additional accidentals (sharps and flats, respectively) compared to the key in which the flute/piccolo would be playing.