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Claude Delangle
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Saxophone History Timeline
Materials Compiled by:
Jeffrey Heisler (Oakland University), Timothy McAllister (Northwestern University / University of Michigan), Andrew Stoker, Fobert Faub, John Jeanneret and Rebecca Blow (SUNY Potsdam), Serge Bertocchi, Alex Sellers, and Steve Stusek (University of North Carolina Greensboro)
1814 - Antoine-Joseph (Adolphe) Sax born 6 November, Dinant, Belgium, studies instrument-making with his father, Charles-Joseph (1791-1865)
1834 - Adolphe Sax perfects bass-clarinet design; *improves keywork and construction
1842 - Sax arrives in Paris
1842 - 12 June--Sax's close friend Hector Berlioz writes article in Paris magazine Journal des Debats describing Sax's newest invention--the saxophone
1844 - 3 February--Berlioz conducts concert which features an arrangement of his choral work Chant Sacre which includes saxophone
1844 - December--Saxophone makes its orchestral debut in Georges Kastner's opera Last King of Juda; Paris Conservatory
1845 - Sax re-tools military band by replacing oboe, bassoons, and french horns with saxhorns in Bb and Eb, producing a more homogenous sound, his idea is a success
1845 - Georges Kastner--Variations Faciles et Brillante for solo saxophone; Sextour for 2 soprano, alto, bass and contrabass saxoph
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Claude Delangle – French Saxophone Master – 03
Transcript of Podcast Interview with Claude Delangle
Barry: I’d love to know, how did you actually get started with the saxophone? Claude Delangle: When, I was nine-years-old, my father had wanted me to play music for a long time. I hadn’t asked, but my father had wanted me to learn because he had studied violin when he was a kid, at least for a few years because his father passed away too early. Afterward, he had to go on in life and so he wanted me to play the violin, of course. We always talked about that at home, “It would be good that you would play music.” For a time nothing happened but we had, at that time, a very good program in schools. There were teachers coming to the primary school, I wouldn’t say teaching music, but we were singing, having a little bit of solfège, all inside the regular school. My parents received a letter from one of the teachers, saying that I had a good ear, was pretty well in tune and it would be a shame if I wouldn’t do something. Perhaps, it would be good to register at the Conservatoire, giving us the address of the Conservatoire. My father took this as an opportunity to register me in the violin class. I was nine years old and we went to the Conservatoire and