Since 1990, Saxiana and the saxophonist Nicolas Prost is always looking for works for the classical saxophone forgotten, rare, unpublished. Nicolas Prost collects a great deal of information from families, heirs to manuscripts, from private collections as well as from National Libraries, Universities or special Foundations. These works are kept in memory in the funds of the Saxiana collection and are currently and punctually represented to the public in discographic, editorial or concert form. This list is a selection (many other complete works have been observed and discovered (for example orchestral works included saxophone solo or saxophone section)
YEAR | COMPOSER | MAIN TITLE | GENRE | TITLE | DURATION | INSTRUMENTATION | SUPPORT | PROVENANCE |
1844 | Berlioz, Hector | Hymne sacré pour les instruments de sax | Chamber music | 5′ | Wind sextet included Bs in Eb | Reconstitution Printed | ||
1845 | Fessy, Alexandre | Fantaisie pour musique militaire d’infanterie | Military | 5′ | Wind band included sax section | Out of print | BNF | |
1846 | Kastner, Jean-George | Méthode | Solo + chamber music | A Sax sextet | Out of print | Private Gourdet collection | ||
1846 | Hartmann, Aîné | Méthode | Solo + Duets | AA | Out of print | BNF | ||
1850 | Schaefer, A.E | Récit et polonaise | Concerto | 7′ | A + wind orchestra | Manuscript copy | Ecole de musique de Munster | |
1852 | Stadtfeld, Alex | Marche russe | Chamber music | ? | SATB (extract) | Manuscript copy | Fredonia | |
1854 | Saint-Saens | Psaume super flumina babylonis | Vocal music | 8′ | SATB + string orchestra + organ + solo voices | Unpublished score and parts | Garde republicaine bibliot | |
1861 | Jonas, Emile | Prière | Chamber music | 4′ | SAATTBs | Out of print | BNF | |
1863 | Kreutzer, Leon | Quatuor | Chamber music | 4′ | SATB | Out of print | BNF | |
1863 | Limnander, Armand | Quintette | Chamber music | 5′ | SSATB | Out of print | BNF | |
1863 | Cressonnois, Jules | Romance de proserpine | Chamber music | 2’30 | ATB | Out of print | BNF | |
1865 | Thomas, Ambroise | 2 chants de l’ancien pérou | Chamber music | 4′ | 3 A | Manuscript copy | BNF | |
1865 | Thomas, Ambroise | Marche religieuse | Orchestra | 5′ | A (+T) | Out of print | BNF | |
1869 | Elwart, Antoine | Prière des petits enfants | Chamber music | 2′ | A + voice + piano | Out of print | BNF | |
1875 | Cohen, Jules | Marche au general Ney | Military | 4′ | 5 sax + 5 bois (2 fl, 2 cl, 1 oboe) | Unpublished | BNF | |
1877 | Franck, César | Petite pièce d’entrée pour concours (morceau de lecture) | Chamber music | 3′ | ? solo + piano | Unpublshed | BNF | |
1877 | Mayeur, Louis | Récréation | Chamber music | 5′ | A+T+ piano | Out of print | BNF | |
1880 | Buot, Victor | Morceau d’élévation | Military | 6′ | A + piano or organ or wind band | Out of print | BNF | |
1880 | Paris-Kerjullou, Charles | Morceau de concert | Chamber music | 6′ | SATB + piano | Out of print | BNF | |
1882 | Lecocq, Charles | Le cœur et la main | Opera | Ouverture | 4′ | SATB | Manuscript copy | Fredonia |
1882 | Franck, César | Hulda | Opéra | Le choeur des pêcheurs | 3′ | ATTB + 4 voices (or piano) | Manuscript Copy | BNF |
1884 | Dukas, Paul | Ondine et le pêcheur | Vocal music | 6′ | Solo voice + chamber orchestra included A | Manuscript copy | Morgan library | |
1886 | Dubois, Charles-Ferdinand | Verone Fantaisie | Concerto | 6′ | A sax part | Out of print | BNF | |
1887 | Pierne, Gabriel | sérénade | Chamber music | 3′ | A + piano | Out of print | BNF | |
1889 | D’indy, Vincent | Fervaal | Opera | Les nuées | 6′ | SAAT + female voices + orchestra | Printed arrangement version with piano | |
1894 | Saint-Saens, Camille | Les noces de prométhée | vocal | Large orchestra included 3 saxophones | Manuscript copy | BNF | ||
1896 | Ratez, Emile | Dans la forêt | Chamber music | 4′ | A + piano | Out of print | BNF | |
1896 | Paul, André | Romance d’automne | Chamber music | 3′ | AA+piano | Out of print | BNF | |
1900 | Fauré, Gabriel | Prométhée | Symphonic | 20′ | Large orchestra included 8 saxophones | Manuscript copy | BNF | |
1902 | Moratin, Henri-Augustin | Quintette | Chamber music | 4′ | AATTB | Out of print | BNF | |
1904 | Longy, Georges | Rapsodie-lento | Concerto | 6′ | A + 6 instr. | Out of print | BNF | |
1905 | Caplet, André | Impression d’automne | Chamber music | Elegie | 5′ | A + oboe + 2 clar + bassoon, + 2 celli + harp + organ | Manuscript copy | Private collection |
1905 | Caplet, André | Légende | Chamber music | 10′ | A sax part | Manuscript copy | BNF | |
1906 | Waele, E de | Quintette | Military | 4′ | S(A) AATB | Out of print | BNF | |
1907 | Mouquet, Jules | Rapsodie | Concerto | 7′ | A + wind band | Out of print | BNF | |
1907 | Severac Deodat de | Fanfare | Military | 4′ | Wind band | Manuscript copy | Toulouse bibliotheque | |
1907 | Bumcke, Gustav | Zwei quartette | Chamber music | 6′ | SATB | Out of print | Imslp | |
1910 | Combelle, François | Grande methode moderne | Chamber music | Included G.Chauvet SATB | Out of print | Private Gourdet collection | ||
1910 | Dupin, Paul | Chant pour saxophone à ceux qui partent | Chamber music | 7′ | A + chamber + chorus + 4 violas + 2 harps | Manuscript copy | Blumenthal library NEC | |
1912 | Levidis, Dimitrios | Variations | Chamber music | 8′ | Chamber noneto included T | Manuscript copy | BNF | |
1912 | Wittmann, G. | Trios, quatuors, quintettes …. | Chamber music | Transcriptions romantics (beethoven, Mendelssohn…) | 20′ | Trio to octuor | Out of print | BNF |
? before 1914 | Dupont, Gabriel ? | Lecture à vue | Chamber music | 2′ | A + piano | Copy of manuscript | Mediatheque Cnsmsdp | |
1914 | Pessard, Emile | Rêverie | Chamber music | 3′ | A + piano | Out of print | BNF | |
1915 | Holbrooke, Joseph | Serenade for 12 instruments | Chamber music | 5 sax + 6 wind + viola + harp | Out of print | Imslp | ||
1915 | Huré, Jean | Andante | Concerto | 8′ | A + piano 4 hands | Copy of manuscript | Bibliotheque Angers | |
1919 | Briard, Raymond | Méthode pour l’étude de tous les saxophones | Solo | Out of print | Private Gourdet collection | |||
1922 | Balay, Guillaume | 2 Lectures à vue | Chamber music | 2′ + 2′ | A + piano T + piano | Copy of manuscript | Mediatheque cnsmdp | |
1923 | Porter, Cole | Within the quota | Ballet | Orchetsration Charles Koechlin | 20′ | Symphonic orchestra including A sax | Extract Copy of manuscript | BNF |
1924 | Cras, Jean | Danse | Chamber music | 4′ | SATB | Manuscript Copy | Family | |
1924 | Cras, Jean | Demain, prélude et danse | Chamber music | 3′ | Manuscript Copy arrangement version SA with piano | Family | ||
1927 | L’enfant, Edouard | Evolution | Ballet | Symphonic included Asax | Copy of manuscript | Opera Paris BNF | ||
1929 | Widoeft, Rudy | Valse vanité | Chamber music | 3′ | A + piano | Manuscript (sax part) | Source incertain | |
1929 | Migot , Georges | Lecture à vue | Chamber music | 3′ | A + piano | Manuscript copy | Strasbourg Université | |
1929 | Ensor, James | Marche des rotariens d’Ostende | Chamber music | For a film | 4′ | Octet included Asax | Manuscript copy | BNF Art et spectacles |
1930 | Vogel, Wladimir | Wagadus untergang durch die eitelket, oratorio | Vocal | 74′ | 5 sax + solo voices + chorus | Out of print | Private Gourdet collection | |
1930 | Balay, Guillaume | Pièce de concours | Chamber music | Original or transcription ?? | 3′ | A + piano | Copy of manuscript | Private collection |
? | Schulhoff, Erwin | Jazz concertino | Chamber music | 6′ | Violin + A/S + piano | Unachevied Unpublished score | ||
1931 | Larmanjat, Jacques | Mélancolie, solo de saxo | Film | 2′ | A + piano (from the film) | Out of print | BNF | |
1931 | Saguet, Louis | Suite pour un orchestre ouvrier | Chamber music | 15′ | Miwed ensemble included sax quartet AATB | Manuscript copy | BNF | |
1931 | Gontier, E. | Trahison | Chamber music | 3′ | A + piano | Out of print | BNF | |
1932 | Decruck, Fernande | Prelude et toccata | Solo | Méthode Ecole moderne du saxophone (co- M.Decruck) | 3′ | A | Out of print | BNF |
1933 | Decruck, Fernande | Pavane | Chamber music | 4′ | SATB | Manuscript copy | Family | |
1933 | Moreau, Leon | Fete paienne | Chamber music | 2’30 | A + piano | Out of print | BNF | |
1934 | Milhaud , Darius | Pan et la syrinx | Vocal | 15′ | A + flute + oboe + bassoon + piano + voices | Printed | Salabert collection | |
1934 | Gaillard, Marius François | Noite sobre o tejo | Chamber music | 4′ | A sax + piano | Copy of manuscript | BNF | |
1934 | Honegger, Arthur | Les misérables | Symphonic | Suite for the film | 20′ | Ensemble + sax solos | Copy of manuscript | BNF |
1934 | David, Karl Heinrich | Quartett | Chamber music | 8′ | A + violin + cello + piano | Manuscript | Private Gourdet collection | |
1934 | Jaubert, Maurice | L’Atalante | Film music | Symphonic included solo Asax | Manuscript copy | BNR Arts et spectacles | ||
1934 | Decruck, Fernande | Saxophonesques vol1 & 2 | Chamber music | 20′ | AA | Out of print | ||
1934 | Decruck, Fernande | Saxophonietta | Chamber music | 3′ | A + piano | Manuscript copy | Family | |
1934 | Decruck, Fernande | The golden sax | Chamber music | 3′ | A + piano | Manuscript copy | Family | |
1934 | Decruck, Fernande | Saxophonie | Chamber music | 5′ | SATB | Out of print | BNF | |
1934 | Larsson, Lars-Erik | Rascher Valse | Chamber music | 3′ | A + piano | Manuscript copy | Fredonia | |
1934 | Larsson, Lars-Erik | Im Zehn minuten | Solo | 2′ | A | Manuscript copy | Fredonia | |
1935 | Viard, Jules | 3 pièces (douce berceuse , rondo, bonsoir) | Chamber music | 9′ | A + piano | Out of print | BNF | |
1935 | Laurent, Leo | King saxo | Concerto | 5′ | A + jazz orchetsra or piano | Out of print | BNF | |
1938 | Milhaud, Darius | Le faiseur | Chamber music | 10′ | Fl + sax + clar + perc | Manuscript copy | BNF arts et spectacle | |
1935 | Villa-Lobos, Heitor | A roseira | Chamber music | 1’30 | SSATB | Out of print | Museu Villa-Lobos Rio | |
1936 | Mengold , Paul | Quartett | Chamber music | 8′ | A + clar + violin + cello | Manuscript | Private Gourdet collection | |
1936 | Capdevielle, Pierre | Exorcisme | Solo | 6′ | A | Out of print | Private Gourdet collection | |
1936 | Milhaud, Darius | Jules cesar | Chamber music | 20′ | Quintet including Asax (or clar) | Copy of manuscript | BNF Arts et spectacle | |
1936 | Hawkins, Coleman | Devotion | Chamber music | 4′ | T + piano | Out of print | BNF | |
1937 | Rivier, Jean | Rêve (for Renault) | Publicité | 4′ | A + trp + piano | Manuscript copy | BNF | |
1937 | Milhaud, Darius | Scaramouche | Chamber music | 10′ | A + piano | Manuscript copy | Fondation Sacher | |
1937 | Beydts, Louis | Romanesque | Chamber music | 3′ | A + piano | Out of print | BNF | |
1937 | Haudebert, Lucien | Souvenir d’armor | Chamber music | 5′ | SATB | Manuscript copy | Family | |
1937 | Maniere, Leon | Vingt pièces | Chamber music | 30′ | SATB | Out of print | Family | |
1937 | Maniere, Leon | impromptu | Chamber music | 4′ | SATB | Out of print | Family | |
1937 | Koechlin, Charles | Dixtuor (final of the septuor) | Chamber music | 3′ | Wind instruments included A | Manuscript copy | ||
1938 | Vellones, Pierre | Cadix | Chamber music | Stage music | 5′ | 2 mondes martenot + 3 sax ATB + trp + piano + harp + doublebass + drums | Manuscript copy | |
1938 | Milhaud, Darius | Le bal des voleurs | Solo | Stage music | 10′ | Asax / Ssax (playing clar) | Manuscript copy | BNF Arts et spectacles |
1938 | Jolivet, André | déchiffrage | Chamber music | 2′ | A + Piano | Manuscript copy | Private collection | |
1939 | Decruck, Fernande | Variations saxophoniques | Chamber music | 8′ | SATB | Manuscript copy | Family | |
1940 | Carter, Elliott | Pastoral | Chamber music | 11′ | A + piano | Manuscript copy | Fredonia | |
1940 | Auric, Georges | Le bal des voleurs | Solo | Stage musique | 10′ | Sax (playing clar) | Manuscript copy | BNF Arts et spectacles |
1941 | Bonnal, Ermend | Symphonie | Symphonic | 40′ | Included 2 sax alto | Manuscript copy | Family | |
1941 | Decruck, Fernande | Symphonie orientale | Symphonie-ballet | Mouvement Intermezzo | 3′ | Sax A solo | Manuscript copy | Family Matthew Aubin |
1942 | Koechlin, Charles | Suite carnavalesque | Chamber music | Silhouette de comédie | Bassoon or A | Manuscript copy esquisse only | BNF | |
1942 | Koechlin, Charles | Etudes | Chamber music | 30′ | A + piano | Manuscript | Private Gourdet collection | |
1942 | Busch, Adolf | Nocturno on a negro spiritual | Concerto | 6′ | A + chamber orchestra | Manuscript copy (sax part only) | Fredonia | |
1943 | Honegger, Arthur | Callisto ou la petite nymphe de diane | Cartoon | 12′ | Chamber orchestra included A | Manuscript copy | BNF | |
1943 | Hoerée, Arthur | A la belle fregate | Film music | Fox | 3′ | Chamber orchestra included 2 A | Manuscript copy | BNF |
1943 | Grainger, Percy | lisbon | Chamber music | 3′ | SAATB | Manuscript copy | ||
1943 | Decruck, Fernande | Danses autour du monde | Chamber music | 8′ | A + piano or harp | Manuscript copy | Family | |
1943 | Honegger, Arthur | Musique pour pasiphae | Incidental music | 6′ | 2 oboe + 2 bassoons + A + 2 clarinet | Printed | ||
1943 | Decruck, Fernande | Sonate en ut# | Concerto | 18′ | A + symphonic orchestra | Manuscript copy | Family | |
1946 | Koechlin, Charles | Prélude op.209 n°5 | Chamber music | 3′ | S + 4 horns + clar + harp | Unpublished score | ||
1946 | Roelens, A. | Menuet vif | Chamber music | 2′ | A + piano | Out of print | BNF | |
1947 | Decruck, Fernande / Duparc Henri | Le galop | Voice + orchestra | 5′ | Voice + orch. (no sax) | Copy of manuscript | BNF | |
1948 | Migot, Georges | prélude-lamento | Chamber music | 8′ | A + piano | Manuscript copy | BNF | |
1948 | Gaillard, F. | Rumba | Chamber music | From the film | 4′ | Chamber music | Manuscript copy | BNF |
1949 | Sauguet, Henri | Scapin | Incidental music | Déploration | 2′ | A + tmpani | Manuscript copy | BNF |
1951 | Fusco, Giovanni | Cronaca di un amore | Film music | 10′ | A + piano | Manuscript copy | ||
1951 | Milhaud, Darius | Le jeu de robin et marion | Stage music | 30′ | Quintet included Asax | Manuscript copy | Fondation Sacher | |
1952 | Jolivet, André | 2 fanfares pour Mithridate | Incidental music | 4′ | 2A + 2 trp + timpani | Manuscript copy | Family + Private collection | |
1952 | Zender, Hans | Konzertino | Concerto | 10′ | A + chamber orchestra | 1st time authorization by family | Breitkopf | |
1953 | Moondog | Oasis | Chamber music | 4′ | 3 sax | |||
1954 | Hovhaness, Alan | The world beneath the sea | Chmaber quartet | Sax + perc + harp | Manuscript copy | Private collection (Paul Cohen) | ||
1955 | Migot, Georges | Quatuor | Chamber music | 15′ | SATB | Manuscript copy | Family | |
1957 | Tansman, Alexandre | Elsa de Berlin | Radiophonic chamber music | 20′ | Trp + A + voice + piano + percu + cello | Manuscript copy + esquisses | BNF | |
1959 | Desportes, Yvonne | Sonate pour un bapteme | Chamber music | 18′ | Flute + A + voice or English horn + percu + piano | Manuscript | Private Gourdet Collection | |
1961 | Desportes, Yvonne | La maison abandonnée | Chamber music | 20′ | String trio + A + percu + piano | Manuscript | Private Gourdet Collection | |
1962 | Milhaud, Darius | Suite de quatrains | Chamber music | 10′ | Narrator + sax + clar + trp + trb + percu + piano | Copy of manuscript | BNF | |
1964 | Desenclos, Alfred | Quatuor | Chamber music | 16′ | SATB | Manuscript (with long end) | Private Gourdet collection | |
1966 | Loussier, Jacques | Sonate | Chamber music | 10′ | A + piano | Out of print | BNF | |
1966 | Bonneau, Paul Sauvage, Camille | Complainte | Chamber music | 3′ | 7 sax + ctb ad lib | Manuscript | Private Bonneau collection | |
1966 | Bonneau, Paul Sauvage, Camille | Sweet dolly | Chamber music | 3′ | Sax ensemble + chamber ensemble | Manuscript | Private Bonneau collection | |
1968 | Robert, Lucie | Double concerto | Concerto | 25′ | A + piano + chamber orchestra | Manuscript | Private Gourdet collection | |
1977 | Arma, Paul | Comme une improvisation | Solo | 4 ‘ | A | Copy of manuscript | BNF | |
Ferrand-Teullet, Denise | Trio | Chamber music | 9′ | A + violin + piano | Manuscript | Private Gourdet collection | ||
Hoerée, Arthur | n°8 | Chamber music | 1′ | A + flute + bassoon | Manuscript copy | BNF | ||
Bonneau, Paul (pseudo Veneux, Thierry) | Harposax | Chamber music | 2’30 | A + harp | Copy | Family | ||
Bonneau, Paul (pseudo Veneux, Thierry) | Saxophonia | Solo | 1’30 | A | Copy | Family |