As director of music, he was required to write symphonies, divertimentos, and operas for his patron’s evening entertainment, as
well as string trios that his patron could perform. further, he was responsible for an orchestra that was never larger than twenty-five musicians and saw to it that all his musicians appeared in uniform and followed instructions.?
The sousaphone is named after John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), who had early sousaphones made according to his specifications in the late nineteenth century.
