- Karel Goetghebeur #2 - June 22, 2020
- Karel Goetghebeur #1 - June 15, 2020
- Adolphe Sax #2 - June 8, 2020
Thanks for coming in and checking out the website. Below are some of the links I mentioned in the podcast. CLICK HERE for PDF transcription.
Charles Joseph Sax
Was a Belgian (he lived in Dinant) musical instrument maker. His son was Adolphe Sax who invented the saxophone, the saxhorn, and the saxotromba. Sax was the son of Francoise Elisabeth (Maréchal) and Antoine Joseph Sax
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Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in Belgium, part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time.
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William I
Was a Prince of Orange and the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg. He was the ruler of the Principality of Nassau-Orange-Fulda from 1803 until 1806 and of the Principality of Orange-Nassau in the year 1806 and from 1813 until 1815.
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The Belgian Revolution
Was the conflict which led to the secession of the southern provinces from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the establishment of an independent Kingdom of Belgium.
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François Antoine Habeneck
Was a French classical violinist and conductor. Habeneck was born at Mézières, the son of a musician in a French regimental band. During his early youth, Habeneck was taught by his father, and at the age of ten played concertos in public. In 1801, he entered the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied under Pierre Baillot and obtained the violin first prize in 1804.
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Isaac Franco Dacosta
Musician and composer; born at Bordeaux Jan. 17, 1778; died there Nov. 29, 1864. He was a pupil of the Musical Conservatory in 1798. Later, while first cornet at the opera in Paris, he was vice-leader of the Musique des Gardes du Corps, under Louis XVIII. Buy book on Amazon
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
Was a German opera composer of Jewish birth, “the most frequently performed opera composer during the nineteenth century, linking Mozart and Wagner”. With his 1831 opera Robert le Diable and its successors, he gave the genre of grand opera ‘decisive character’. Meyerbeer’s grand opera style was achieved by his merging of German orchestra style with Italian vocal tradition.
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Hector Berlioz
Was a French Romantic composer. His output includes orchestral works such as the Symphonie Fantastique and Harold in Italy, choral pieces including the Requiem and L’Enfance du Christ, his three operas Benvenuto Cellini, Les Troyens and Béatrice et Bénédict, and works of hybrid genres such as the “dramatic symphony” Roméo et Juliette and the “dramatic legend” La Damnation de Faust.
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Jean-Georges Kastner
Was a composer and musicologist. Kastner’s parents were Johann Georg Kastner, from Dettwiller, and Marie Salome Pfeiffer, from Woerth. Despite his interest in music, Kastner studied theology at the University of Strasbourg at the request of his father from 1827 to 1832. After the premiere of his opera The Queen of the Sarmatian in 1835 in Strasbourg, the city council granted him a scholarship to the Paris Conservatoire where he studied with Anton Reicha and Henri Montan Berton.
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The Serpent
Here’s a video of a gentleman playing the serpent. Here is the Wikipedia Link.
Les Huguenots
This is a scene from Meyerbeer’s “Les Huguenots” and the famous Bass Clarinet part that Adolphe Sax and Isaac Franco Dacasto competed with. Here’s the Wikipedia Link
Saxhorn
Here’s a video of a gentleman playing the saxhorn. Here’s the Wikipedia Link.
Tenoroon
Here’s a video of a gentleman playing a tenoroon. Here’s the Wikipedia Link.
Ophicleide
Here’s a video of a gentleman playing the Ophicleide. Here’s the Wikipedia Link.
Ophicleide Sax
Here’s a gentleman playing an Ophicleide with a saxophone mouthpiece. Enjoy!
