From: jwenger@ulci06.unil.ch ()
Subject: Saxophone, use of - : list v1.0
Reply-To: jwenger@ulci06.unil.ch ()
Organization: University of Lausanne - CH (Switzerland)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:56:07 GMT


Dear Netters,

You are all wonderful peoples. Many thanks to:
Jamie Mitchell <MICH@UNB.CA>
Michael Gallagher <mpg@Think.COM>
Robert Marshall <rob@cs.man.ac.uk>
brad@buck.viewlogic.com (Bradford Kellogg)
brucek@Ingres.COM (Bruce Kleinman)
dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor)
irj@inf.rl.ac.uk <Ian>
jack <jack@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
jdooley@maemaster.eng.uci.edu (John R. Dooley)
maverick@cork.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Vance Maverick)
ovillumsen@daimi.aau.dk <Ole V. Villumsen>
rwilmer@carrier.mitre.org (R. Wilmer)
zornow@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Claudia Zornow)

Here is the first crop of answers to my question about the use of saxophone
in classical music. It seems that this instrument appealed to many composers
as soon as it was known to the musical world. The earliest piece I could
locate is the Berlioz, performed in 1844 (The saxophone was invented in the
early 1840's, patented in l846).
If someone has something to add or correct, please do not hesiate to mail
or post, and I'll update this list.

                                             Jacques


Bennett, Richard Rodney: Concerto for saxophone
Bernstein, Leonard: On The Town
Berlioz, Hector: Hymne sacree
Bizet, Georges: L'Arlsienne
Britten, Benjamin: Billy Budd
Britten, Benjamin: Sinfonia da Requiem
Debussy, Claude: Rhapsody for saxophone and orchestra.
Gershwin, George: An American in Paris
Gershwin, George: Piano Concerto in F
Gershwin, George: Rhapsody in Blue (the small-orchestra version)
Glazunov, Alexander: Concert for saxophone and Orchestra in c minor.
Harle, John: Out of the cool
Ibert, Jacques: Concertino da camera
Lutoslawski, Witold: Concerto for Orchestra
Milhaud, Darius: La Creation du Monde
Milhaud, Darius: Scaramouche (sax & piano)
Muldowney Dominic: Saxophone Concerto.
Mussorgsky, Modeste/ Ravel M.: Pictures at an Exhibition.
Nyman, Michael: Whole *sheetloads* of it
Prokofiev, Sergei: Romeo and Juliet
Prokofiev, Sergei: concerto for saxophone and orchestra
Rachmaninov, Sergei: Symphonic Dances
Ravel, Maurice: Bolero and several others
Strauss, Richard: Sinfonia Domestica
Vaugham Williams, Ralf: Antarctic Symphony, the 3rd and,the 4th
Vaugham Williams, Ralf: Ninth Symphony.
Vaugham Williams, Ralf: Symphony #8 (a full set of 3)
Vaughan Williams, Ralf: scherzo of 6th symphony.
Villa-Lobos, Heitor: Fantasy for saxophone and orchestra
Walton, William: Faade (small chamber group)
Webern, Anton: Quartet op. 22
Wolpe, Stefan: Quartet for trumpet,saxophone, piano and percussion.


One book:

Gee, Harry R,: Saxophone soloists and their music, 1844-1985: an annotated
               bibliography.
               Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1986.


The cherry on the cake: <From: rwilmer@carrier.mitre.org (R. Wilmer)>

Jacques Ibert wrote some good music for sax.
Arnold Bax should have.
Antonio Vivaldi would have.

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Jacques C. Wenger, University of Lausanne
jwenger@ulci06.unil.ch / jwenger@ulys.unil.ch
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