Nocturne 20 by Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer, virtuoso pianist, and music teacher of French–Polish parentage. A great masters of Romantic music and has been called “the poet of the piano”. He supported himself as a composer and piano teacher, giving few public performances. For most of his life, Chopin …
Divagociones Criollas by Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944) When Barrios first arrived in Buenos Aires in 1910, he found employment playing for cinemas and theaters. An extended medley form based on folkloric melodies, Divagaciones Criollas (“Creole Wanderings”) was probably created as “filler music” to be played during intermissions and between acts.
Estudio para Ambas Manos by Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944) Barrios’s compositions can be divided into three basic categories: folkloric, imitative and religious. Barrios paid tribute to the music and people of his native land by composing pieces modeled after folk songs from South America and Central America. Imitating the compositional style and techniques of the …
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Opus 68 No 2 Soldier’s March by Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era.
Waltz No.2 by Johann Strauss (1825-1899) Johann Baptist Strauss I (1804 -1849), was an Austrian composer of the Romantic Period. He was famous for his light music, namely waltzes, polkas, and galops, which he popularized alongside Joseph Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons—Johann, Josef and Eduard—to carry on his musical dynasty.
Opus 25 Memory of August 15 by Jose Ferrer (1835-1916) José Ferrer was a Spanish guitarist and composer, born in Spain. Ferrer studied guitar with his father, a guitarist and collector of sheet music, before continuing his studies with José Brocá. In 1882, he left Spain for Paris in order to teach at the Institut …
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Petenera by Luis de Soria (1851-1935) Luis de Soria (1851-1935) was self-taught at the age of 9, and became a disciple of Julian Arcas. It was during this time Arcas introduced Soria with another young guitarist, Francisco Tarrrga; this lead to duo performance of the two young players. Unfortunately their partnership split when Tarrrga was …
Mazurka by Luigi Mozzani (1869-1943) Mozzani guitarist Louis was a great performer, teacher, composer and instrument maker. He was born in Faenza,Italy, March 9, 1869. Soon his tour took him to America where he lived for two years (1894-1896) and where he published in New York the three volumes of “Studies for Guitar”. He then …
Waltz No.1 by Johann Strauss (1825-1899) Johann Baptist Strauss I (1804 -1849), was an Austrian composer of the Romantic Period. He was famous for his light music, namely waltzes, polkas, and galops, which he popularized alongside Joseph Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons—Johann, Josef and Eduard—to carry on his musical dynasty.
Opus 28 No 4 Prelude by Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer, virtuoso pianist, and music teacher of French–Polish parentage. A great masters of Romantic music and has been called “the poet of the piano”. He supported himself as a composer and piano teacher, giving few public performances. For most of …
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