Louis Moyse, co-founder of Vermont’s Marlboro Music Festival and teacher to top flutists around the world, died Monday at 94 at his home in Montpelier, Vt.

Moyse, who moved to Montpelier in the late 1990s, remained active in music to the end of his life. He spent his last year writing an arrangement of Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,” and led his master class in a performance of it last week.

“He was so anxious to conduct it and have the master class because he knew it would be his last,” said Janet White Moyse, his wife of 33 years. “He wanted to do it, and he did make it.”

Moyse, also an accomplished pianist, attracted students from around the world to his master classes and composed more than 170 works.

He was born in the Netherlands, where his father and teacher, the renowned flutist Marcel Moyse was on tour, and was raised in France.

Phillipp Naegele, an emeritus professor of music at Smith College in Northampton, Mass., and a friend of Moyse, called him “his father’s son. He was playing the flute in the very same style—vibrant, energetic, lyrical and most of all modeled on the human voice.

“But he made a place for himself beyond being a wonderful flutist and teacher by being a wonderful composer and pianist,” Naegele said.

The Moyse family left France after World War II and lived for a time in Argentina before settling in Brattleboro. They, Adolph and Herman Busch and Rudolf Serkin joined to found the Marlboro Music School and Festival in 1951. The festival continues to draw world-class musicians to southern Vermont for seven weeks each summer.

“He was very charismatic—a good musician and composer. His legacy was helping to develop the woodwind department here,” said Anthony Checchia, a co-administrator at Marlboro.