 The Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi wrote a part for the saw in his quarter-tone piece "Quattro pezzi per orchestra" (1959).German composer Hans Werner Henze took the saw to characterize the mean hero of his tragical opera "Elegy for young lovers" (1961).Other composers were Krysztof Penderecki with "Fluorescences" (1961), "De natura sonoris Nr.