Brief biography of Sax

Telegram Antoine Joseph Sax was born in Dinan on November 6. No one still has an exact answer why people began to call him Adolf. As it was, his parents moved to Brussels when the baby was only a few months old. His father was a carpenter and, oddly enough, a manufacturer of musical instruments. Therefore, from a young age, Saxor studied this craft. However, in his opinion, the location of the wind holes he shifted, as a result of which the sound changed and became softer.

” Santi also says that at the first opportunity in the year, the talented Adolf Saks moved to Paris. Its main goal was to create a number of new types of musical instruments for the orchestra of the French army. There was a lot of work. The saxophone acquired real fame in America - any fan of Jazz Adolf Sax did not lose time about this. He lent a little money from his friends, built his own workshop and began work on the tool, which at that time received the name "Saxorn".

Later, it will become popular, however, under a different name-Flugelgorn, Euconium and Bas-Tube. In the year, Sax received a patent for an invention, which he devoted to work on for several years - a saxophone. Its design was a combination of a clarinet and an Office of approx. It sounds great, isn't it?

However, Adolf was a difficult person. According to Santi, “Sax was a very contradictory person. It was a dangerous, prolific, energetic Belgian who arrived in Paris to divide the musical world of France into supporters and opponents. ” Luck constantly smiled, then turned away from him. He became bankrupt 3 times because of the claims that competitors presented him.

Competitors who began to create their own version of the saxophone based on Patent Sax, who expired 10 years after its priority. The saxophone was widespread in chamber and orchestral music, but most of all in army big bands. It was love at first sight - between jazz musicians and saxophone Joe Santi: “It was love at first sight - between jazz musicians and saxophone. They played on it as if they sang, and the saxophone is the best tool to show it.

With it, you can cry, talk, sob or scream in the same way as with your voice. ” Monuments to Dzhazov performers Adolf Sax died in the year and was buried in the Montmartre cemetery in Paris. In the last years of his life, he fought with lip cancer and opposed his own poverty. Universal attention to Adolf Sax was attracted last year - at the celebration of the Flight of his birth. In the Brussels Museum of Musical Instruments, a special exhibition of Saxor's works was organized, and in his hometown of Dinan an international competition was held on the game on the saxophone.