Saxophones Were Intended to be Orchestral Instruments
A saxophone is loved by everyone. It's breezy and enjoyable and suits both seductive songs and action sequences in movies. But that kind of use was never planned at all. The fact that the sax was once intended to be a part of an orchestra can be linked to the history of the instrument in both jazz and rock.
If you enjoy symphonic music, you may already be aware that the devil's horn is not present. This is due to the fact that Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone in 1841—many years after some of the greatest symphonies had already been composed. He had essentially missed the boat. Because all of those large symphonies by renowned composers like Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven were not created with a sax in mind and because recomposing them would have required a lot of time and work, the sax did not fit into orchestras.
Even worse, when the sax initially came out, people despised it. Because of the threat they believed a saxophone constituted to the musical instrument injury because of the variety of sounds it could produce, Sax the man's opponents attempted to sabotage him by seizing his instrument and even killing him. The sax was therefore forced out of symphonies and classical music, but it was ready to be adopted by jazz and then rock a few years later, when it went on to become one of the key components of their sounds.
