There, I had to do justice in a striking way in the presence of many different artists, and address compliments and acknowledge the best merits to the engineer, manufacturer and inventor Mr. Sax, manufacturer and inventor of numerous wind instruments, I went to his factory to meet them and listen to them. Gaspare Spontini too, after visiting Sax's workshop, declared in an extremely flattering way: "After the repeated invitations of Mr. In December, the saxophone debuted at the orchestra of the Paris Conservatory in Georges Kastner's opera "Le Dernier Roi de Juda".īerlioz praised the instrument several times, from a famous article in June 1842 to the flattering chapter dedicated to the saxophone in the famous "Treatise on Instrumentation", as did Gioachino Rossini who, already during his stay in Paris in 1844, declared, taking as a witness his publisher Troupenas: "with the saxophone, it is the most beautiful pasta sonora that I know". The original score of this piece has been lost but has been reconstructed and rearranged for saxophone ensemble by Jean-Marie Londeix.
On February 3 of the same year the composer Hector Berlioz, a great friend of Sax, conducted in concert his choral Sacred Song (Hymne Sacrée), transcribed by the author for all the new instruments produced by Adolphe Sax, including the saxophone.
In 1844, the saxophone was also presented at the Industrial Exhibition in Paris. The saxophone made its first public appearance in 1841 at the Exposition de l'Industrie in Brussels in the form of a brass C bass. This "hybrid", while belonging to the family of woods and having the technical flexibility, allows a large volume of sound, comparable to that of brass. The Belgian Antoine Joseph Sax, known as Adolphe Sax (1814-1894), tried all his life to improve wind instruments: he invented devices to improve their intonation, sound and ease of execution, filing 33 patents.Īfter concentrating on various aerophones and, above all, on clarinets, Sax built an instrument that joined the simple reed mouth of the clarinet and the body of the ophicleid, an instrument of the family of conical brasses and equipped with a system of keys similar to the clarinet, the oboe and the transverse flute. military bands): for this reason it was almost immediately present in early jazz formations, a musical genre of which has become the international symbol. Equipped with a powerful voice and great projection of sound, the saxophone has a wide band use (for example it is widely used in U.S. There is also a growing body of original chamber music for saxophones (often in quartets) and transcriptions. Because of his recent invention, in classical music the saxophone is a bit penalized by the limited literature, but it is still present, even with important roles, in symphonic orchestras (remember the solo for alto sax in "The old castle" from the Pictures of an Exhibition of Mussorgskij orchestrated by Maurice Ravel in 1922). In general, the sax family is present in almost all modern musical genres (even if it is less represented in rock and roll and electronic music in general): even the trend towards synthetic and sampled music has only affected its popularity. It has had a great and fast expansion in many genres of music thanks to its qualities of expressiveness and ductility. It was invented by Adolphe Sax (from whom it took its name) in 1840 and patented on 22 June 1846. The length of the vibrating air column (and therefore the height of the sound produced) is modified through holes in the body of the instrument (controlled by keys). The emission of sound is caused by the vibration of a reed, obtained from a common reed (Arundo donax). The saxophone is included in the family of woods and not brass because, although the body of the instrument is normally made of metal (often just brass), it has among its ancestors the flute and the clarinet from which it inherited the structure (its inventor created it starting from the shape of the bass clarinet) but not the material. Stay tuned as more tracks will be released in the coming weeks and months.The saxophone, saxophone, or, simply, sax, is a simple reed aerophone musical instrument. ► Stream, Buy and Download my music HERE:
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