Pre 20th Century Guitar Milestones

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	"Unlike most Spanish baroque guitarists, this Italian published his complex but playful compositions influenced by French lute & dance forms"

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	"Another Italian in France but with simpler, more elegant style & perhaps consequently more popular at Court"

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	"A Majorcan Royal College singer in Madrid who pioneered Spanish baroque guitar & wrote down his compositions!"

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	"Crucial French innovator at Versailles who reflected Renaissance/ Baroque musical transition with pieces for lute & early guitar"

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	"Italian Count who captured dance forms & added complex embellishments - unlike some recordings, Volta allows these pieces to breathe in a reverberant acoustic"

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	"Unlikely tale of sometime Aragonese priest who learned from Corbetta & other Italians while collecting Spanish folk tunes"

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	"Another unlikely tale of a French Royalist soldier who fled the Revolution to write early Romantic pieces in absentia"

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	"Early Italian who advocated lute-like plucking & strumming - doubts re these energetic but eccentric arrangements allayed by Pschichholz's guitar playing"

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	"Rossini opera pieces arranged for guitar duos by Giuliani with v rare duos by Gragnani, de Rossa & de Barco played as authentically as possible"

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	"Carter's beautifully recorded advocacy of De Murcia as the greatest Spanish baroque guitarist is totally convincing"

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	"Unsurpassable 3-disc collection of duos that adds rhythmic agility to Giuliani's fliar as a tunesmith"

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	"His skill as a cellist & association with Romantic pioneers in Austria gave his pieces harmonic as well as melodic sophistication - Russell is their greatest advocate"

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	"A particularly fragrant potpourris! Tamayo is also expressive in this repertoire"

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	"French pupil of Sor who published his mentor's work & made a living from his own melodic compositions - gorgeous understated Chopin influence here."

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	"Prolific Naples composer & author of the first complete classical guitar method, still in use today"

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	"Prolific Hungarian composer influenced by native dance forms & Schumannesque pianissimo"

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	"Born in Madrid & friend of Sor who combined Romantic feel for melody with innovations such as use of fingernails"

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	"Carulli/ Baschiera"

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	"Sor Duos"

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	"Combining Flamenco, Moorish & Chopin influences,Tarrega has been immortalised by the adoption of a few of his notes into the Nokia theme"

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	"Sor/ McFadden"

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	"Arcas"

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	"Italian who moved from Milan to Vienna where he wrote flamboyant, Paganini-inspired miniatures ranging across minor & major keys"

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	"Regondi Holmquist"

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	"Unfairly neglected Czech composer of chamber pieces & so-called 'Beethoven of the guitar' due to his more famous contemporary"