Editing Jean-Pierre Rampal (section)

== Post-war success ==
In 1945, following the [[liberation of Paris]], Rampal was invited by the composer [[Henri Tomasi]]—then conductor of the [[Orchestre National de France]]—to perform the Flute Concerto by [[Jacques Ibert]], written for [[Marcel Moyse]] in 1934, live on French National Radio. It launched his concert career and was the first of many such broadcasts.<ref name="autobio"/>

With the war over, Rampal embarked on a series of performances: at first, within France; and then, in 1947, in [[Switzerland]], [[Austria]], [[Italy]], [[Spain]], and the [[Netherlands]]. Almost from the beginning, he was accompanied by pianist and harpsichordist [[Robert Veyron-Lacroix]], whom he had met at the Paris Conservatoire in 1946.{{#tag:ref|For his first professional recital, given in Marseille in July 1941, Rampal was accompanied by pianist Pierre Barbizet.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.jprampal.com/bio | title=Repères Biographiques | trans-title=Biographical | work=Association Jean-Pierre Rampal | access-date=26 November 2010 | language=fr}}</ref>|group=nb}} By contrast with, as Rampal saw it, his own somewhat emotional Provençal temperament, Veyron-Lacroix was a more refined character (a "true upper class Parisian"), but each found with the other a balanced musical partnership. The appearance of this duo after the war has been described as a "complete novelty", allowing them to make a rapid impact on the music-going public in France and elsewhere.<ref name="Verroust, p. 26">[[#Verroust|Verroust]], p. 26</ref> In March 1949, in the face of some scepticism, they hired the [[Salle Gaveau]] in Paris to perform what then seemed the radical idea of a recital programme made up solely of chamber music for flute. It was one of the first flute/piano recitals the city had seen, and caused a "sensation".<ref name="independent">{{cite news | title=Obituary: 'Jean-Pierre Rampal' | date=22 May 2000 | last=Joyce | first=Laurence | newspaper=The Independent}}</ref> The success encouraged Rampal to continue along that track. The recital was repeated the following year in Paris. Throughout the early 1950s, the duo made regular radio broadcasts and gave concerts within France and elsewhere in Europe. Their first international tour came in 1953: an island-hopping journey through Indonesia to [[ex-pat]] audiences. From 1954 onwards came his first concerts in eastern Europe—most significantly in Prague, where he premiered Jindrich Feld's ''Flute Concerto'' in 1956. In the same year, he appeared in Canada—where, at the Menton festival, he played for the first time in concert with violinist Isaac Stern, who not only became a lifelong friend but also proved a considerable influence on Rampal's own approach to musical expression.<ref name="bbc">{{cite interview|title=Interview with Jean-Pierre Rampal|last=Rampal|first= ean-Pierre|interviewer= Peter Griffiths	| location = London|date=November 1982| work = BBC Radio}}</ref>

On 14 February 1958, Rampal and Veyron-Lacroix made their US debut with a recital of [[Francis Poulenc|Poulenc]], [[Bach]], [[Mozart]], [[Beethoven]], and [[Prokofiev]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] at the [[Library of Congress]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-musicians/rampal-jean-pierre-biography | title=Rampal, Jean-Pierre | publisher=eNotes.com | work=eNotes | access-date=26 November 2010 | last=Burgess | first=Marjorie}}</ref> In 1959, Rampal gave his first concert in [[New York City]], at the Town Hall. Rampal's successful partnership with Veyron-Lacroix produced their 1962 double LP of the complete Bach flute sonatas. They performed and toured together for some 35 years, until the early 1980s, when Veyron-Lacroix was forced to retire owing to ill-health. Rampal then formed a new and also long-running musical partnership with American pianist [[John Steele Ritter]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}

While he pursued his career as a soloist, Rampal remained a ensemble player throughout his life. In 1946, he and [[oboist]] Pierre Pierlot founded the Quintette a Vent Francais (French Wind Quintet), formed of a group of musical friends who had made their way through the war: Rampal, Pierlot, [[clarinetist]] [[Jacques Lancelot]], [[bassoonist]] Paul Hongne, and [[French horn|horn]]-player [[Gilbert Coursier]]. Early in 1944, they had played together, broadcasting at night from a secret "cave" radio station at the [[Pierre Schaeffer#Club d'essai & the origin of musique concrète|Club d’essai]] in rue de Bec, Paris—a programme of music outlawed by the Nazis, including works with Jewish links by composers such as [[Paul Hindemith|Hindemith]], [[Arnold Schoenberg|Schoenberg]] and [[Darius Milhaud|Milhaud]]. The Quintet remained active until the 1960s.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}

Between 1955 and 1962, Rampal took up the post of Principal Flute at the [[Opéra National de Paris|Paris Opera]], traditionally the most prestigious orchestral position open to a French flautist. Having been married in 1947 and now a father of two, the post offered him a regular income.{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}}