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Fernando Sor (baptised 14 February 1778 – 10 July 1839) was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer of the late Classical era and early Romantic era.Best known for writing solo classical guitar music, he also composed an opera (at the age of 19), three symphonies, guitar duos, piano music, songs, a Mass, and at least two successful ballets: Cinderella, which received over one hundred ...
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.
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 society presented classical, jazz, and flamenco guitarists in concert in the Newcastle-upon-Tyne area. [14] In September 1982 he founded Classical Guitar magazine. [15] He sold this magazine to String Letter Media (US) [16] in 2014. Summerfield promoted many concerts, including an annual classical guitar series at the Wigmore Hall in London.
Frederick McNeill Noad (August 8, 1929 – September 13, 2001) was a classical guitar performer, educator, and a founder of the Guitar Foundation of America.Noad was best known for his popular instructional television series, Guitar with Frederick Noad, which was originally televised on PBS in the mid-1960s and re-syndicated in color in the early 1980s, and which continues to be broadcast today.
Guitar by Torres (1862) at Museu de la Música de Barcelona (MDMB 625). [3] While Torres was not the first to use this method he was the one who perfected the symmetrical design. To prove that it was the top, and not the back and sides of the guitar that gave the instrument its sound, in 1862 he built a guitar with back and sides of papier ...
By 1979 he had increased this to more than 80 guitar instruction books. [21] Alfred Music is still selling Lee's "Christmas Guitar Book" [35] and "Beginners's Chord Book". [36] However his "Twist Music for Guitar" and "Rhythm and Blues for Guitar", books of original compositions written for Sam Fox Publishing Co., are among those no longer in ...
Duarte was a regular contributor to the magazine Soundboard, an interviewer, and a reviewer of books, music, concerts and recordings of many kinds (specializing in Baroque music) with Gramophone, Music Teacher and Classical Guitar, and the author of numerous concert programme notes and about 250 liner notes for records of various kinds, including those for the complete reissue of Julian Bream ...