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Adolphe Adam
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THAT M. Adolphe Jullien should have followed up his Life of Wagner with a similar Life of Berlioz is one of the things which, as he himself more than half admits, may fairly be called fated. As a French Wagnerian who had written the first really worthy Life of the Bayreuth master, his position with his compatriots would hardly have been a comfortable one had he not seen fit to pay an equal tribute to the great French composer, whose memory all artistic France chose to agree in honoring, if only to show the world that Germany was not alone in possessing a great musical innovator. Just in how far the Berlioz cult in France was the result of national jealousy — sharpened by the political events of 1870 — on the one hand, or of a normal settling and coming to its bearings of French musical opinion on the other, is not easy to determine. Undoubtedly it was, in some measure, due to both influences ; and it would be as untrue to say that Berlioz’s present popularity in France is wholly owing to the French political animosity toward Wagner as to say that Berlioz would have occupied as prominent a place in French musical life and thought as he actually does if Wagner had never existed. It is undeniable that Wagner’s dreary farce, Fine Kapitulation, published shortly after the Franco-Pr
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The Extraordinary Life of Adolph Sax, Inventor of the Saxophone
Image: Le port de Dinan par Isidore Dagnan (vers 1835), coll. Ville de Dinan - Musée de Dinan
Adolphe was influenced by this musical and inventive childhood. The boy learnt singing, flute and clarinet before becoming an apprentice to his father. However, his personal fortune was not straightforward. Colourful stories about his upbringing suggest that there were times when Adolphe’s parents thought he may not live long. A catalogue of misfortune befell the child. He swallowed acidic water when he was just 3 years old, tumbled from a third-floor window, was burned in a gunpowder explosion, fell onto a frying pan (burning his side) and escaped poisoning and asphyxiation when varnished items were left in his bedroom overnight.
His mother is quoted as saying: "He's a child condemned to misfortune; he won't live,". In the family’s local district, he was referred to as "little Sax, the ghost".
First inventions and a struggle for recognition
Adolphe’s first invention was a new 24-valve system clarinet, which he developed when he was 20 years old. He demonstrated this system, which he later patented, at the 1835 Industrial Exposition in Brussels. He also worked