Fantaisie concertante

Clovis Lecail was born in 1859 in Mondrepuis, in the Aisne department, a region bordering Belgium, where his family originated.
Attracted to music at an early age, he pursued serious studies at the Brussels Conservatory, culminating in a first prize for Trumpet, in addition to similar awards obtained in the musical writing classes of the Grand Prix de Rome HJ Dupont. From then on, his artistic career focused on teaching, conducting and composition.
A prolific composer, he is responsible for numerous descriptive works, for choir, orchestra, and instrumental music in which wind instruments predominate.

First published in Paris in 1911, the Fantaisie Concertante is fully in line with the repertoire of a few similar works, which, especially in France since the end of the ^19th century, have contributed to establishing the legitimacy of the Saxophone, particularly in the chamber music register. Due to its originality, this delicate composition, which is articulated in the form of a concerto in a perfectly mastered tessitura, naturally finds its place among the essential works of the historical repertoire dedicated to the instrument.