Premier Quatuor op.53 Jean Baptiste Singelée / Arr. Jean-Marie Londeix

pour 4 saxophones (SATB) partition et parties

Premiere Quatuor pour Saxophones, Op. 53 (1857), Jean Baptiste Singelee
Year of Composition: 1857
Andante
Allegro
Adagio sostenuto
Allegro vivace
Allegretto

As a longtime friend of Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone (they met as students at the Royal School of Music), he encouraged Sax to develop the four principal members of the saxophone family, and composed what is very likely the first work ever written for the saxophone quartet, his Premier Quatuor, Op. 53, completed in 1857. In addition to his saxophone works, Singelée is credited with composing 12 concertos, many solo works for violin and other instruments as well as music for ballet.