Opus 333 No 9 by Ferdinando Carulli (1770-1841)

Ferdinando Carulli was born in Naples, Italy on February 10, 1770. Carulli’s first musical instruction was on the cello, but he soon turned his attention to the guitar. Carulli was entirely self taught, as there were no guitar teachers in Naples at the time. Despite having no formal instruction on the guitar, Carulli rapidly became known as one of the leading virtuosos of his day.

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Suite (Pavana alla Ferrarese) by Joan Ambrosio Dalza (fl 1508)

Joan Ambrosio Dalza was an Italian lutenist and composer. Nothing is known about his life. His surviving works comprise the fourth volume of Ottaviano Petrucci’s influential series of lute music publications, Intabolatura de lauto libro quarto (Venice, 1508). Dalza’s music is, for the most part, comparatively simple and easy to perform.

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Suite (Piva) by Joan Ambrosio Dalza (fl 1508)

Joan Ambrosio Dalza was an Italian lutenist and composer. Nothing is known about his life. His surviving works comprise the fourth volume of Ottaviano Petrucci’s influential series of lute music publications, Intabolatura de lauto libro quarto (Venice, 1508). Dalza’s music is, for the most part, comparatively simple and easy to perform.

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Le Souvernir by Marco Aurelio Ferranti (1802-1878)

After A.T. Huerta, the most distinguished European guitarist to tour America was the Italian Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti (1802-1878), who toured the country with Paganini’s protégé Camillo Sivori in 1846. Zani de Ferranti, who also was renowned as a poet, was a composer, a highly regarded concert guitarist and the Court Guitarist to the King of Belgium.

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Recercar by Joan Ambrosio Dalza (fl 1508)

Joan Ambrosio Dalza was an Italian lutenist and composer. Nothing is known about his life. His surviving works comprise the fourth volume of Ottaviano Petrucci’s influential series of lute music publications, Intabolatura de lauto libro quarto (Venice, 1508). Dalza’s music is, for the most part, comparatively simple and easy to perform.

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Ti…baleto da balar belloby Vincenzo Capirola (1474-1548)

Vincenzo Capirola was an Italian composer, lutenist and nobleman of the Renaissance. His music is preserved in an illuminated manuscript called the Capirola Lutebook, which is considered to be one of the most important sources of lute music of the early 16th century.

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Tyrolienne by Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868)

Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces. His best-known operas include the Italian comedies Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) and La Cenerentola and the French-language epics Moïse et Pharaon and Guillaume Tell (William Tell).

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La Chase by Anonymousby Anonymous

There was a great flowering of sacred and instrumental music, including music for the lute. The lute was brought to Europe in the 13th century by the returning crusaders. It was originally played with a plectrum, usually a feather tip. Later the plectrum was discarded in favor of plucking with the right hand fingers, thereby creating more polyphonic capabilities. Of all the instruments of the Renaissance, the lute was without a doubt the most popular. The amount of music printed and hand-written for the lute is astounding.
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The Scottish Huntsupeby Anonymous (Early 17th century)

There was a great flowering of sacred and instrumental music, including music for the lute. The lute was brought to Europe in the 13th century by the returning crusaders. It was originally played with a plectrum, usually a feather tip. Later the plectrum was discarded in favor of plucking with the right hand fingers, thereby creating more polyphonic capabilities. Of all the instruments of the Renaissance, the lute was without a doubt the most popular. The amount of music printed and hand-written for the lute is astounding.
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Andantino by Antoine Tranquille Berbiguier (1782-1838)

Berbiguier was was a French flutist and classical era composer . He was a self-taught flutenist, violinist and cellist. A lawyer by profession, he later was drafted into the military. In 1819, his resigned and settled as a flute virtuoso and composer in Paris. Berbiguier of more than 150 works, including 11 flute concertos, two symphonies, concerto for two flutes and orchestra and chamber music compositions.
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