Hall elects

Elects Hall , born Boyer (* Paris, 1853 - † Boston, 1924), was a American Saxophoniste and Mécène.

Biography

American of French origin, it begins the saxophone on medical recommendation: Elise Hall catches the typhoid one; after its disease, it is practically deaf. In the hope to cover hearing, it takes the advice of her husband, doctor, and decides to learn how to play of a wind instrument and chooses the Saxophone. Music lover and patron, it founds in 1899 an orchestra amateur gathering the musicians of the best company: the Orchestral Boston Club . Its goal was to make be up to all the tricks French and her new instrument in its country of adoption and to contribute to the cultural rise of this one. Fortunate, it orders works for saxophone and orchestra with principal the Compositeur S of his time.

One can regard it as the founder of the first repertory concerting for saxophone, largely tinted Orientalisme, like wanted it the fashion of time. A a little unequal production but in which appear some rare pearls and completely estimable.

List works which it caused, ordered, and created

Rhapsody of Claude Debussy (1903-1911)
Legend and Impression of autumn of Andre Caplet,
Legend COp 66 of Florent Schmitt (1918)
Choral varied of Vincent d' Indy (1903)
Continuation of Gabriel Grovlez
Poem elegiac of Philippe Gaubert
Andante and Concertstück of Jean Head
First Concerto of Paul Gilson (1902)
Moorish Imagination of François Combelle (1920)
Legend of Georges Sporck (1905)
Siberia and Octuor of Henry Woolett
Pastoral of Leon Moreau
Spanish Entertainment , Rhapsody (1900), carnavalesque Ballade (1903) of Charles Loeffler
Impression of Georges Longy (1902)
Rhapsody COp 26 of Jules Mouquet
Song of Paul Dupin

External bond

History of the saxophone

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