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Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax (French: [ɑ̃twan ʒozɛf adɔlf saks]; 6 November 1814 – 7 February 1894) [a] was a Belgian inventor and musician who invented the saxophone in the early 1840s, patenting it in 1846.
Mr Sax's House (French: Maison de Monsieur Sax; Dutch: Huis van Sax) is a little museum in Dinant in the Belgian province of Namur. It is dedicated to Adolphe Sax (1814–1894). Sax was a builder of musical instruments and is foremost remembered for his invention of the saxophone .
The Cemetery of Montmartre (French: Cimetière de Montmartre) is a cemetery in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France, that dates to the early 19th century.Officially known as the Cimetière du Nord, it is the third largest necropolis in Paris, after the Père Lachaise Cemetery and the Montparnasse Cemetery.
Name Death Occupation Final known burial place Images Notes Claudio Abbado: 2014 Conductor Reformierte Kirche Fex Crasta [], Sils im Engadin/Segl, Switzerland: Ten months after his death the urn containing his remains was buried in a cemetery belonging to a 15th-century church in Sils-Maria, a village in the Swiss canton of Graubünden where Abbado had a vacation home.
The museum's collection presents Belgian musical history (including Brussels' importance in the making of recorders and various obscure proto-synthesizers (Ondes Martenot, [7] Theremin, [8] etc.) in the 18th and 19th centuries and as the home of the instrument inventor Adolphe Sax in the 19th century), [9] European musical traditions, and non ...
Charles-Joseph Sax (1 February 1790 – 26 April 1865) was a Belgian musical instrument maker. His son was Adolphe Sax, who invented the saxophone, the saxhorn and the saxotromba. [1] Sax was the son of Françoise Élisabeth (Maréchal) and Antoine Joseph Sax. [2] He was a maker of wind and brass instruments, as well as of pianos, harps, and ...
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Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone, also studied at the Brussels Conservatory. In 1967, the institution split into two separate entities: the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel , which teaches in Dutch , and the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles , which continued teaching in French .