Sigurd Rascher

Sigurd Rascher , born the May 15th 1907 with Elberfeld) (Germany) and dead the February 25th 2001 with Shushan (New York), was a American Saxophoniste of German origin.

One of the pioneers of the traditional saxophone, Rascher was the silent partner of 150 works for the instrument, including the concerti of Ibert and Glazunov. After the study of the clarinet, it chooses to specialize with the saxophone, for which it develops unknown and amazing modes of play hitherto, like the Suraigu. He will be a success fulgurating with the beginning of the year 1930, as a concert performer soloist, with Berlin then in all Europe. What will encourage it to order many partitions with a wise choice of type-setters of talent, often subjugated by its technical control. Constrained to expatrier because of the rise of the Nazism, it will go then in Sweden then to the the United States Its concerts with the Orchestra of Boston and New York are the first of these orchestras with a soloist saxophonist. He was professor at the University of Michigan, the Juilliard School, and the Eastman school in the United States.

Works written for Sigurd Rascher

Frank Martin: Ballade for alto saxophone and orchestra (1937)
Henry Cowell: Air and Scherzo for alto saxophone and string orchestra (1961)
Alexandre Glazounov: Concerto in MIB for alto saxophone and string orchestra (1937)
Paul Hindemith: Konzertstück for two alto saxophones (1932)
Jacques Ibert: Concertino da Camera for saxophone and chamber orchestra (1935)
Erland von Koch: Concerto for alto saxophone and string orchestra
Lars-Erik Larsson: Concerto for alto saxophone and string orchestra (1934)

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