Adolphe Sax
Antoine-Joseph Sax was born on 6 November 1814, in Dinant, in what is now Belgium, to Charles-Joseph Sax and his wife. While his given name was Antoine-Joseph, he was referred to as Adolphe from childhood. His father and mother were instrument designers themselves, who made several changes to the design of the French horn. Adolphe began to make his own instruments at an early age, entering two of his flutes and a clarinet into a competition at the age of 15. He subsequently studied performance on those two instruments as well as voice at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
Maurice de Saxe
Many previous errors in former biographies were corrected and additional information supplied in Karl von Weber's "Moritz Graf von Sachsen, Marschall von Frankreich, nach archivalischen Quellen" ["Moritz Count of Saxony, Marshal of France, after archival sources"] (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1863), in Saint-René Taillandier's "Maurice de Saxe, étude historique d'après les documents des archives de Dresde" ["Maurice of Saxe, historical study according to the documents in the archives of Dresden"] (1865) and in Comte Carl Friedrich Vitzthum von Eckstädt's "Maurice de Saxe" (Leipzig, 1861).