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Saxophone Concerto (Glazunov)
Musical composition by Alexander Glazunov
The Concerto in E flat major for alto saxophone and string orchestra, Op.
109, was written by Alexander Glazunov in 1934. The piece lasts about fourteen minutes and is played without pause. It is deeply rooted in Romanticism, and has entered the standard saxophone repertoire.
History
Although invented in the early 1840s, the saxophone was still fairly new and unfamiliar in Glazunov's day; it remained untouched for a long time as it was considered "middle class".
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However, Glazunov was enthralled by the sound of the saxophone: a new timbre in the musical world.[1]
The work premiered in Nyköping, Sweden, on 25 November 1934, with Sigurd Raschèr, a famous German saxophonist, as soloist.
It is Raschèr who is credited for bringing about the concerto's composition. He hounded Glazunov for a saxophone concerto, so much so that the composer wrote to a colleague that he had started the piece in Mar