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The following is a non-comprehensive list of composers who have composed original music for the classical guitar, or music which has been arranged for it. This list is sortable by name, nationality and years of birth or death.
Most Renaissance lute music has been transcribed for guitar (see List of composers for lute). The baroque guitar (c.1600–1750) was a string instrument with five courses of gut strings and moveable gut frets. The first (highest pitched) course was sometimes a single string.
The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, [1] is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon , it is a precursor of the modern steel-string acoustic and electric guitars , both of which use metal strings .
This is a list of classical guitarists. Baroque (17th and 18th centuries) Name Born ... Name Born Country Adam Darr: 1811–1866: Germany Andrei Osipovich Sychra:
Pages in category "Composers for the classical guitar" The following 172 pages are in this category, out of 172 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In the 20th century, many non–guitarist composers wrote for the instrument, which previously only players of the instrument had done. For a larger list of composers who have written for the solo guitar, see the list of composers for the classical guitar. Some of the better–known are: Hermann Ambrosius (1897–1983) Louis Andriessen (1939 ...
An ornate guitar made by a Joakim Thielke (1641–1719) of Germany was altered in this way and became a success. From the mid-18th century through the early 19th century, the guitar evolved into a six-string instrument, phasing out courses by preference to single strings. These six-string guitars were still smaller than the modern classical guitar.
Tolgahan Çoğulu (born 1978, in Ankara, [1] Turkey) is a Turkish classical guitarist, arranger and designer of the adjustable microtonal guitar.He built a unique repertoire of works for microtonal guitar by arranging Anatolian folk music and Ottoman maqam music and by commissioning the leading and emerging composers.