What is Adolphe Sax?
[[File:Adolphe Sax.jpg|thumb|right|Adolphe Sax]] '''Antoine-Joseph''' (known as '''Adolphe''') '''Sax''' (6 November 1814 – 7 February 1894) was a Belgian [[inventor]] and [[musician]] who played the [[flute]] and [[clarinet]]. He is best known for inventing the [[saxophone]]. ==Bio== Adolphe Sax was born in [[Dinant]] in [[Wallonia]], Belgium. Adolphe began to make his own instruments at an early age. He entered two of his [[flute]]s and a [[clarinet]] into a competition at the age of fifteen. He studied those two instruments at the Royal School of Singing in [[Brussels]]. Adolphe's first important invention was an improvement of the [[bass clarinet]] design. He [[patent]]ed this at the age of twenty-four. In 1841, Sax moved to [[Paris]]. Around this time he invented the saxophone. He got a job teaching at the [[Paris Conservatoire]] starting in 1867. Sax suffered from lip cancer between 1853 and 1858 but made a full recovery. He died in 1894 in Paris. ==Books about Adolphe Sax== * ''Adolphe Sax, sa vie son oeuvre'', Malou Haine, Brussel University Press, Brussel, 1980 * ''Sax, Mule & Co'', [[Jean-Pierre Thiollet]], H & D, Paris, 2004 {{ISBN|2 914 266 03 0}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sax, Adolphe}} [[Category:1814 births]] [[Category:1894 deaths]] [[Category:Belgian inventors]] [[Category:Belgian musicians]] [[Category:Clarinetists]] [[Category:People from Namur (province)]]