Great pick Watt!

[quote]I think it's a shame the sax is still excluded from orchestral compositions[/quote]
Classical music perhaps, but if you love sax and/or horns as part of an orchestra, listen to the Jesus Christ Superstar original album. It will blow your mind.

[quote=cdngooner post_id=389298 time=1711630071 user_id=10829]
I'm actually an amateur saxophone player. Adolphe holds a special place in my heart.
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I've only played a little bit of tenor, but I absolutely love the sound of the whole sax family. I think it's a shame the sax is still excluded from orchestral compositions

I'm actually an amateur saxophone player. Adolphe holds a special place in my heart.

[quote=cdngooner post_id=389294 time=1711627749 user_id=10829]
Free guess: Adolphe Sax.
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It is Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax

Inventor of the saxophone, key contributor to the modern-day bass clarinet design, and inventor of the saxhorn, which lead to the invention of my personal favorite instrument... the flugelhorn! Though Adolphe Sax wasn't a composer, he commissioned many famous composers to write pieces for his new inventions, with Hector Berlioz famously writing of his approval of the, originally, widely disliked saxophone.

It's a miracle we ever got to see Sax's inventions, as he had a Kenny-like disposition to fatal danger as a child. This wiki entry sums it up pretty well.. As a child, he once fell from a height of three floors, hit his head on a stone and was believed dead. At the age of three, he drank a bowl full of acidic water, mistaking it for milk,[4] and later swallowed a pin. He received serious burns from a gunpowder explosion and once fell onto a hot cast-iron frying pan, burning his side. Several times he avoided accidental poisoning and asphyxiation from sleeping in a room where varnished furniture was drying. Another time young Sax was struck on the head by a cobblestone and fell into a river, almost dying.[5]
His mother once said that "he's a child condemned to misfortune; he won't live". His neighbors called him "little Sax, the ghost".[5]

Very nice guess cdngooner, I was thinking this one might go to 20 questions

Free guess: Adolphe Sax.

1,2,3 real, male human born in the americas or Europe
4 not currently alive and did not unalive within the last 3 months
5,11,12,15 Born in Europe, not what is currently Portugal, Spain, France, Andorra, Monaco, Italy, Sweden or England, not born not in what, at one time, was a Warsaw pact country
6,7,9,14 born between 1750 and 1822, did not die before 1800
8,10,13,16 known for accomplishments relating to music, not a composer (playing, conducting, etc.)

[quote=Hominidae post_id=389290 time=1711625050 user_id=15876]
Known primarily for composing music?
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No!

[quote=Jamiet99uk post_id=389286 time=1711623441 user_id=137]
Born in the east of Germany, in Poland, or in Hungary?
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I won't count this, but Hom is right, these three areas were part of the Warsaw pact

Known primarily for composing music?

[quote=Jamiet99uk post_id=389286 time=1711623441 user_id=137]
Born in the east of Germany, in Poland, or in Hungary?
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It's already established that he wasn't born in the Warsaw pact area.

Scratch

Free guess: Frederic Chopin

Born in the east of Germany, in Poland, or in Hungary?

[quote=damo666 post_id=389281 time=1711618861 user_id=173]Beethoven[/quote]

No

[quote=Hominidae post_id=389282 time=1711620843 user_id=15876]
Damo is quite possibly correct. It can't be Mozart because he died too early.

Free guess: Felix Mendelssohn.
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No

[quote=Aristocrat post_id=389284 time=1711622105 user_id=16525]
Free guess: Franz Liszt
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No

You all will need more information to figure this one out

Free guess: Franz Liszt

I just realized it also can't be Mozart because Mozart was the third answer ever in this game.

Damo is quite possibly correct. It can't be Mozart because he died too early.

Free guess: Felix Mendelssohn.

Beethoven

[quote=Aristocrat post_id=389278 time=1711599952 user_id=16525]
Born somewhere that is currently part of one of these countries, regardless of whether it was part of these countries at the time of his birth: Portugal, Spain, France, Andorra, Monaco, or Italy?
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No