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Alto Saxophone SKU: HL.48180936 For Alto Saxophone and Piano. Composed by Henri Tomasi. Leduc. Classical. Softcover. 30 pages. Alphonse Leduc #AL19803. Published by Alphonse Leduc (HL.48180936). UPC: 888680787103. 9.25x12.25x0.124 inches.Ballade for Alto Saxophone and Piano was composed in 1938 by the French composer Henri Tomasi (1901-1971). Introduced by a poem by Suzanne Mallard, his wife, Ballade is a 15-minute work that covers and alternates between different styles such as andantino, guigue and blues. The poem refers to a clown who claims his story to the night. It is a short poem of four verses, composed with rhymes in A/B/A/B formation. Henri Tomasi, who won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1927, also composed a variety of concertos for alto saxophone, for trumpet and for trombone, as well as some ballades.