Paul-Agricole Génin

Paul-Agricole Génin (1832-1903) was a French flautist and composer born in Avignon. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Jean-Louis Tulou and Louis Dorus, winning a first prize in 1861. He later served as principal flute at the Théâtre-Italien and with the Concerts Colonne. His fantasies and variations, often based on operatic melodies, belong to the nineteenth-century virtuoso flute tradition.