Adolphe Sax
Inventor
U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for Nov. 7...of the key instruments in these bands is the saxophone. The family of brass wind instruments with reed mouthpieces were invented by Adolph Sax of Belgium, whose birthday was noted yesterday. Saxophones were first used in symphonic music, but... In this article: U.S. Census Bureau, Adolph Sax, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Sidney Bechet, Belgium, and Washington |
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
Saxophone
His experience with these two instruments allowed him to develop the skills and technologies needed to make the first saxophones. Adolph Sax created an instrument with a single reed mouthpiece like a clarinet, conical brass body like an...
In this article: Marcel Mule, Sigurd Rascher, Orchestration, Conservatoire de Paris, Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra, Ebonite, Silver, Rudy Wiedoeft, and Wilhelm Wieprecht
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Saxhorn
...of 1893, and modern names. Developed during the mid to late 1830s, the saxhorn family was patented in Paris in 1845 by Adolphe Sax. Sax's claim to have invented the instrument was hotly contested by other brass instrument makers...
In this article: Orchestration, American Civil War, Hector Berlioz, Olivier Messiaen, Cecil Forsyth, Europe, Paris, and Britain
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Saxotromba
The saxotromba is a valved brasswind instrument invented by the Belgian instrument-maker Adolphe Sax around 1844. It was designed for the mounted bands of the French military, probably as a substitute for the French horn . The saxotrombas...
In this article: Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Paris, Treatise, Das Rheingold, and Western music
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Tenor saxophone
...to form a tonal link between the clarinets and brass instruments found in military bands, an area which Sax considered sorely lacking. Sax's patent, granted on 28 June 1846, divided the family into two groups of seven instruments, each...
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Adolphe Sax
...rival instrument makers attacked the legitimacy of his patents and mounted a long campaign of litigation against Sax and his company, driving him into bankruptcy twice (in 1856 and 1873). Sax suffered from lip cancer between 1853 and 1858 but...
In this article: Paris, Bankruptcy, Charles-Joseph Sax, Cancer, Royal School, Dinant, and Brussels
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Jean-Baptiste Singelee
...first composers to treat the saxophone as a serious classical instrument, evidenced by his composing over 30 Solos de Concours for Sax and his students at the Paris Conservatory. As a longtime friend of Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the...
In this article: Jean-Baptiste Singelee, Royal School, Brussels, and Belgium
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Taipei Times | July 25, 2009
Tourism Bureau gives out free packs of postcards
...locally developed saxophone - in Houli Township (后里), Taichung County. A saxophone made 160 years ago by the instrument's inventor, Adolphe Sax, is on display at the facility, where guided tours and saxophone lessons are provided. Another...
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Saxtuba
...occurs in the Judgment dernier ("Last Judgment") in Act V, which also includes parts for four saxophones, one of which was played by Sax himself. On both occasions the performers are instructed to march across the stage, playing martial music...
In this article: Le Juif errant, Hector Berlioz, Jules Massenet, New Grove Dictionary, Esclarmonde, Paris, Fromental Halevy, Western music, and Orchestration
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boston.com - Top arts and entertainment stories | November 24, 2008
A serpentine member of orchestras past
...aria from Handel's "Acis and Galatea" performed on another forgotten brass instrument: the ophicleide, which allegedly inspired Adolphe Sax to invent the instrument that bears his name. On either end of this journey up the brass family tree,...
In this article: Douglas Yeo, E-mail, Boston Classical Orchestra, Acis and Galatea, Boston.com, and Hector Berlioz
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | November 16, 2008
Courtney Pine: my week
I was having one of my 32 saxes repaired after I dropped it. Also got to see a rare, 5ft 5in low G sax, the biggest in the world. Adolphe Sax invented the instrument to fill in the bass register of an orchestra. It was Napoleon who developed...
In this article: London Jazz Festival, Sidney Bechet, Omelette, Mango, George V, and Nikki Yeoh
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Antoine-Joseph 'Adolphe' Sax (November 6, 1814 – February 4, 1894) was a Belgian musical instrument designer and musician (clarinetist), best known for inventing the saxophone.
Adolphe Sax was born in Dinant in Wallonia, Belgium. His father, Charles-Joseph Sax, was an instrument designer himself, who made several changes to the design of the horn. Adolphe began to make his own instruments at an early age, entering two of his flutes and a clarinet into a competition at the age of fifteen. He subsequently studied those two instruments at the Royal School of Singing in Brussels.
Having left the school, Sax began to experiment with new instrument designs, while his father continued to produce conventional instruments to bring money into the household. Adolphe's first important invention was an improvement of the bass clarinet design which he patented at the age of twenty.
In 1841, Sax relocated permanently to Paris and began work on a new set of instruments which were exhibited there in 1844.
They were valved bugles, and although he had not invented the instrument itself, his examples were so much more successful than those of his rivals that they became known as saxhorns. They range in approximately seven different sizes, and paved the path to the creation of the flugelhorn. Today, they are widely used in concert bands and sometimes in orchestras. The saxhorn also laid the groundwork for the modern euphonium.
Sax also developed the saxotromba family, valved brass instruments with narrower bore than the saxhorns, in 1845, though they survived only briefly.
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