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- From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
- Subject: Re: Saxophone, use of - : list v1.0
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.202248.20033@osf.org>
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- References: <1992Dec23.155607.26622@ulci20.unil.ch>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:22:48 GMT
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- jwenger@ulci06.unil.ch () writes:
- > The earliest piece I could
- >locate is the Berlioz, performed in 1844 (The saxophone was invented in the
- >early 1840's, patented in l846).
-
- My 1981 _Guinness Book of Music_ claims the prize for J. G. Kastner's
- oratorio "The Last King of Judah". It also gives 1844, so it must have
- been close.
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