Carina rascher biography definition

Please tell us something about your father, Sigurd Raschèr.

Carina Rascher: My father had initially studied clarinet in Stuttgart during the 1920s, but then decided to completely dedicate himself to the saxophone as a classical concert instrument.

He came to Berlin during the early 1930s. He was involved there in works which included a saxophone in the orchestra – such as Ernst Krenek’s opera Jonny spielt auf, for example.

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He also played the saxophone part in Hindemith’s opera Cardillac.

Except for such orchestral parts, there was still very little original literature for the classical saxophone during the late 1920s and early 1930s …

… and that’s why my father, young and uninhibited as he was, approached composers and asked them if they would like to write a saxophone work for him.

Until then there was hardly any literature for the saxophone, no teachers and no players. My father thus found himself in virgin territory when he de