Robert Hugh Willoughby

Robert Hugh Willoughby (June 6, 1921 – March 27, 2018) was an American classical flute player and flute teacher. He played both Baroque and modern flute. He has been described by "Flute" magazine as the "American grandmaster of the flute". 
Willoughby taught for many years at Oberlin College, where he was the first Robert Wheeler Professor of Performance. He taught for ten years at the Peabody Institute, and later at the Longy School of Music of Bard College. He received the Alumni Achievement Award from Eastman School of Music and in 1996 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Flute Association.
Students.
Among his many students is the jazz flute player Paul Horn.
Selected discography.
Robert Willoughby, flute 
James Caldwell, oboe 
Lawrence McDonald, clarinet 
Robert Fries, french horn 
Kenneth Moore, bassoon 
Saturday, January 14, 1984 8:00 p.m. in Hamman Hall, Rice University Digital Scholarship Archive http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/76867
Personal life.
He married author Elaine Macmann Willoughby in 1957.