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Solo de concert No. 4, Opus 84 for Tenor Saxophone and Piano (1862)—Jean-Baptiste Singelée; Solo de concert No. 6, Opus 92 for Tenor Saxophone and Piano (1863)—Jean-Baptiste Singelée; Premier Solo andante et bolero for tenor saxophone and piano (1866)—Jules Demersseman; Brasiliana No. 7 for Tenor Saxophone and Piano (1956)—Radamés ...
Despite being a common grouping in jazz, saxophone, piano and percussion was an extremely rare grouping in classical music until the end of the 20th century, when Trio Accanto started commissioning works to build a repertoire for themselves.
Rhapsodie for saxophone and orchestra, L.98, also known as Rhapsodie mauresque or Rhapsodie orientale, is a piece for alto saxophone and accompaniment by Claude Debussy. Completed in solo and piano form in 1911, the piece is most well known through its 1919 orchestration of the accompaniment by Jean Roger-Ducasse .
The genre of solo saxophone has a rich, but largely unmapped history in contemporary music, particularly jazz. [1] Many, but not all, musicians who play and record solo saxophone use extended techniques, a vocabulary of the saxophone beyond its normal range.
Solo Saxophone Concerts is an album by American jazz saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell composed of solo concert performances from 1973 and 1974 and released on the Canadian Sackville label. It was reissued in 2009 by AECO/Katalyst under the title The Solo Concert .
Organica (subtitled Solo Saxophones, Volume 2) is a live solo album by American jazz saxophonist David S. Ware, which was recorded in 2010 and released on the AUM Fidelity label. The album includes two complete performances: the first was an invite-only event in Brooklyn and the second took place at the Umbrella Music Festival in Chicago .
The Saxophone Concerto, Op. 14, is a three-movement concertante composition for alto saxophone and string orchestra written in 1934 by the Swedish composer Lars-Erik Larsson. The piece premiered on 27 November 1934 in Norrköping , Sweden, with Tord Benner [ sv ] conducting the Norrköping Orchestral Association . [ 1 ]
Newman was born in Corsicana, Texas, United States, on February 24, 1933, but grew up in Dallas, where he studied first the piano and then the saxophone. [1] According to one account, he got his nickname "Fathead" in school when "an outraged music instructor used it as an epithet after catching Newman playing a Sousa march from memory rather than from reading the sheet music, which rested ...