Sax Solo

Septième Solo de Concert

Jean-Baptiste Singelée

Composed:
1863 Grouping:
B + piano Duration:
04:00

Although he wrote ballets, string works, and more, Jean-Baptiste Singelée is remembered in the saxophone world as the composer that wrote the first ever sax quartet and many early solo pieces to test the skills of the student's of Adolphe Sax's first saxophone course at the Conservatoire de Paris. This is one of the few solos written specifically for baritone saxophone and on a modern instrument is a very approachable concert piece.

Some of Singelée's works are freely available but this wonderful baritone solo piece is not. Here we present a new type-setting of this work based on an 1864 original provided by the archive of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Other than some suggested dynamics in the solo part this is faithful to the original. An alternative arrangement with sax ensemble accompaniment is also available here.

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