Gustave Auguste Besson

After a series of lawsuits with Adolphe Sax, Besson left Paris in 1858 and relocated to London.

[1] He continued to manufacture instruments in Paris and London and had distribution warehouses in Brussels, Charleroi, Madrid and Barcelona.

Besson was apprenticed at the age of 10 to an instrument maker called Dujariez in Paris.

By the age of 18 he had produced and registered a new model cornet which was universally recognised as a great improvement on all previous instruments of its kind.

By 1850 Besson had opened a brand of his business in London at the premises of instrument maker John Pask.