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The romantic guitar eventually led to a different type of guitar in Spain: the fan-braced Spanish guitars of Torres, which may be seen as the immediate precursor of the modern classical guitar. In the 20th century, many non-guitarist composers wrote for the instrument, whereas previously only players of the instrument had done so.
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John Schneider (born 1950) is a Grammy® Award winning and 4-time Grammy® nominated American classical guitarist.He performs in just intonation and various well-temperaments, including Pythagorean tuning, including works by Lou Harrison, LaMonte Young, John Cage, and Harry Partch.
The guitar instrumental version became a worldwide hit single when it was used as the theme tune to the Oscar-winning film The Deer Hunter (1978). Between 1978 and 1984, Williams was a member of the instrumental fusion group Sky , with whom he recorded six successful albums and scored a UK Top Five single with "Toccata".
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.
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As a result, a large part of the guitar repertoire consists of works by guitarists who did not compose extensively for other instruments. Music prior to the classical era was often composed for performance on various combinations of instruments, and could be adapted by the performer to keyboard instruments, the lute, or the guitar. Since the ...
Hermann Hauser Sr. (28 December 1882 in Erding – 28 October 1952 in Reisbach) was a German luthier.He worked in Munich and later in the Bavarian Reisbach. Guitar models by Hermann Hauser Sr. included the Vienna Model and the Munich Model, the Terz-Guitar, the Prim-Guitar and the Fifth-Bass Guitar (Quintbass).