Saxophone Quartet (Kreutzer, Léon)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 1 movement
Composition Year 1857?
Genre Categories Quartets; For soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone; Scores featuring the soprano saxophone; Scores featuring the alto saxophone; Scores featuring the tenor saxophone; Scores featuring the baritone saxophone; For 4 players

Sheet Music

Scores and Parts

 Complete Score (ca.300dpi color)
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 Complete Score (black and white)
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Editor First edition
Publisher. Info. Paris: Adolphe Sax, n.d.[1863]. Plate A.S. 82.
Copyright
Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
Misc. Notes Original images: ca.300dpi, color jpg files approx. 2300 by 3040 pixels. Editing: re-sampled to 600dpi, converted to black and white tif files, de-skewed, and set uniform margins. This file is based on high-resolution images obtained from the source using a method explained on this page. Publication date estimated by BNF; also: Publication noted in the Bibliographie de la France 2e série, 52e année, Nº 39, 26 Septembre 1863, p.462, r.2382.
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 Complete Score
#515609 - 0.16MB, 18 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 783×⇩ - Matesic

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⇒ 4 more: Soprano Saxophone • Alto Saxophone • Tenor Saxophone • Baritone Saxophone

 Soprano Saxophone
#515610 - 0.06MB, 5 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 406×⇩ - Matesic

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 Alto Saxophone
#515611 - 0.06MB, 5 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 301×⇩ - Matesic

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 Tenor Saxophone
#515612 - 0.05MB, 5 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 306×⇩ - Matesic

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 Baritone Saxophone
#515613 - 0.05MB, 5 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 301×⇩ - Matesic

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Editor Cypressdome
Steve Jones
Publisher. Info. Cypressdome, Jones, 2018.
Copyright
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 [tag/del/mrg]
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Psaiko Quartet plays Léon Kreutzer's Saxophone Quartet

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General Information

Work Title Saxophone Quartet
Alternative. Title Quatuor pour saxophones
Composer Kreutzer, Léon
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. ILK 11
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 1 movement in 2 sections:
  1. Andante
  2. Allegro
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1857?
First Publication. 1863 or earlier (Paris: Adolphe Sax)
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation 4 saxophones (SATB)
External Links [1] 1861 Letter from Sax to Kreutzer concerning news of any other quartets he might expect (from Kreutzer) (which did not materialize.) (Page says that this quartet was published around 1860.) (This link doesn't seem to work on all browsers. If it doesn't, go to www.saxame.org, then click on "Topics/Thèmes". From there you will see the link to "Letter from Adolphe Sax to Léon Kreutzer . . ."

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Though the score says "saxophone basse", it is in E♭, which in modern terminology makes it a baritone sax. The bass saxophone is in B♭.
This saxophone quartet is a transcription of the first movement from the composer's Quatuor No.2, Op.15, for strings.

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