Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, insert any other composer whose last name starts with a B...All of these composers are Grand Masters, but none of them wrote for guitar.
Now I love the works of the great masters. One thing that bothered me, though, is that when I started learning classical guitar, I noticed that the composers didn’t seem to be the same ones in the Piano books.
For example, minus a few arrangements by Norbert Kraft, there was no Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann or Chopin in my guitar books. I found lots of works by Giuliani, Sor, Aguado, and Carulli.
Intrigued, I would open the dictionary of composers and eagerly search for Fernando Sor or Mauro Giuliani only to find nothing! No mention of any of those names. I would thumb music history books and if lucky, maybe find a paragraph or two dedicated to a twentieth-century composer who wrote for guitar.
Composers for the classical guitar are sadly glossed over or ignored in the standard history textbooks, which mostly feature composers who wrote primarily for the piano. So I tried to fix that in this video.
Here’s a look at the composers who wrote the music that all classical guitarists grow up with. Students who learn Classical Guitar will encounter music by these composers right away. But these composers also wrote more advanced and beautiful music.
Have you heard of these composers before watching this video? Let me know in the comments!
Music played by Brett Vachon.
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📣List of works played📣
00:00 Introduction
01:03 Canarios - Gaspar Sanz
01:37 Prélude - Robert de Visée
01:59 Menuet - Fernando Sor
03:20 Cantabile - Dionisio Aguado
04:04 Adagio con gran espessione - Mauro Giuliani
04:45 Andante - Ferdinando Carulli
05:09 Study no.2 - Matteo Carcassi
05:42 An die enfernte - Johann Kaspar Mertz
06:29 Rondeau - Napoléon Coste
07:37 Adelita - Francisco Tárrega
08:00 Vals - Agustín Barrios Mangoré
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