1. Lone Voices: The First Generation
The saxophone’s origin stories in its native France, goldrush-era Australia, and the United States, set to geopolitical tumult and a firming of the musical canon.
George Baxter, The Siege of Sebastopol, 1855. British Museum. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1901-1105-159.
F. Jeannin-Gros, ‘Ophicleide Player, Paris, mid-19C’, Musical Instruments Museum Brussels. http://www.mim.be/ophicleide. Accessed 7 April 2019.
J. Traviès, “Panthéon Musical” – Les Principaux Compositeurs en 1843, 1843, reproduced in Leon Kochnitzky, Adolphe Sax and His Saxophone (New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1949), 29. https://archive.org/details/AdolpheSaxAndHisSaxophone/page/n3/mode/2up. Accessed 2 September 2019.
‘Baritone Saxophone, Patent #3226, March 21 1846, INPI Paris’, Musical Instruments Museum Brussels. http://www.mim.be/baritone-saxophone. Accessed 4 April 2019.
Louis-Joseph Ghémar, Caricature d’Adolphe Sax, 1842. Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels. https://uurl.kbr.be/1907602. Accessed December 21 2022.
Anton von Werner, Kaiserproklamation am 18 Januar 1871, 1885.
Georges Bizet, L’Arlésienne Suite no. 1, arranged Herman Finck, transcribed for military band W.J. Duthoit (London: Hawkes & Son, 1932), bars 90–112.
Benjamin Roubaud, ‘Le Panthéon charivarique’, Le Charivari, c. 1840. Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A Scene of Monsieur Jullien's Promenade Concerts, 1865. Westminster City Archives. https://www2.calmview.co.uk/Westminster/CalmView/TreeBrowse.aspx?db=Catalog&field=RefNo&key=WCA00010. Accessed 12 November 2019. This is catalogued as an 1865 performance, however Jullien died in 1860 and can be located leading Promenade concerts in Covent Garden in 1852.
Louis Adolphe Mayeur, ‘Récréation sur des motifs du Trouvère’, revised José-Modesto Diago Ortega (Editions SaxResurrection, 2017), 8.
Joseph Nash, Louis Haghe, and David Roberts, Dickinson’s Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851 (London: Dickinson Brothers, 1854). https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/dickinsons-comprehensive-pictures-of-the-great-exhibition-of-1851. Accessed 7 September 2018.
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Currier & Ives, Coloring His Meerschaum (New York: Currier & Ives, 1880). Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/90716190. Accessed 21 May 2022.
Ali Ben Sou Allé. Goulburn Waltz a Mes Amis de Goulburn (No publishing details, 1855), 4. http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-181800081. Accessed 5 January 2022.
Ali Ben Sou Allé, ‘Souvenirs d’Australie et de Manille’, Royal Album Pour Saxophones Par Ali Ben Sou Allé, Etc. (Paris: L. Parent, 1865), 136
Adolphe Naudin, Ali Ben Sou Allé, 1864, UK National Archives, reproduced in Cottrell, ‘Charles Jean-Baptiste Soualle and the Saxophone’, 195.
Thomas Phillips, ‘George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1813)’, replica c. 1835, oil on canvas, National Portrait Gallery. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw00991/Lord-Byron. Accessed 7 June 2019.
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José-Modesto Diago Ortega, ‘Ali-Ben-Sou-Allé’s Turcophone Patent (1860): the Closest Bridge Between the Clarinet and Saxophone’, Galpin Society Journal 72 (March 2019): 176.
Joseph Meyer, Karte vom Grossen Ocean - Mare Pacifico (Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, 1849), http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-232358696
Samuel Waugh, The Bay and Harbour of New York, 1848
Charles G. Grehen, Interior of Tripler Hall (New York: J. M. & F. J. Clark, 1851). Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2006687094.
Andrew Jackson, The Legendary Saxophonists Collection (Tegucigalpa: A. Jackson, 2006), 55, reproduced in Louis Adolphe Mayeur, ‘Récréation pour le Saxophone Ténor avec accompagnement de Piano sur La Favorite’, revised José-Modesto Diago Ortega (Editions SaxResurrection, 2017), 9.