Marcel Mule

Marcel Mule (* June 24, 1901 in Aube; † 18 December 2001, Hyères) was a French saxophonist and composer in the field of classical music.

Life

Was 8 years old began Mule saxophone lessons from his father, who led the brass band of the French community Beaumont- le -Roger. In addition, he received lessons on the violin and the piano. Despite this support, he decided to enter the teaching profession, graduated from the Ecole Normale in Évreux, after three years from and taught for half a year until he was called up for military service. After the First World War, where he served in Paris in the fifth Infantry, to Mule devoted even more to their music and joined in 1921 by the French military band at. In 1923 he was inducted into the Republican Guard and was in the orchestra, the task of the saxophone soloists. Thus he received the opportunity to perform in various orchestras and bands.

In 1927, Mule with three colleagues of the Guard, the first saxophone quartet named " Le quatuor de la musique de la Republican Guard ," in which he played soprano saxophone. Initially, they were forced due to lack of literature for the new cast to play transcriptions of classical composers. Due to the positive criticism, which received the quartet, composers such as Gabriel Pierné, Florent Schmitt and Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov became aware of it and began to write music for saxophone quartet.

1936 Mule resigned from the Guard in order to focus more on composing and occurrence can. The quartet changed its name to " Quartet de Saxophones de Paris ", but was later referred to as " de Saxophones Quartet Marcel Mule ". The international fame grew, so the musicians gave concerts in several European countries. 1944 Mule second professor of saxophone at the Conservatoire de Paris. 71 years after Adolphe Sax ' retirement was there again a saxophone class. 1958 reached his career with a concert tour of the United States along with the Boston Symphony Orchestra peaked. Nine years later, he went into retirement. His student Daniel Deffayet took his place at the Conservatoire. At the age of 100 years, Marcel Mule died on 18 December 2001.

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