Talk:Symphonia Domestica

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Saxophones or Saxhorns?

Most of the information I've seen about this piece mentions its use of saxophones. What information do we have to contradict this?

Clearly saxhorns. The autograph score is only marked Sax (not saxophone), hence the confusion, but the parts themselves are too low to fit into the comfortable range of the saxophone, but perfect for Saxhorns. Historically, the saxophone was not present in Germany during the time of composition of this work, but the saxhorn was used in German military bands.

There are quite a few published sources which treat this issue and it seems quite clear among Strauss scholars that the so-called saxophone parts are indeed for Saxhorn. I'll have to dig a bit, but it seems that only saxophonists think that these parts are really for saxophone. Gretab 20:35, 19 April 2007 (UTC)