Critically acclaimed virtuoso of plucked instruments since age nine, John Schneiderman specializes in the performance practice and repertoire of eighteenth-century lutes and nineteenth-century guitars. Based in
A real paradox emerges here: a cigar box guitar made today may differ very little physically from one made at the end of the nineteenth century, but, in reality, it is still not the same thing. One major difference lies in the reason for their production. Today’s cigar box guitars, de...
Cheshire, NWC England, UK. As a child he studied the piano in Frankfurt, later returning there to study composition. His works won a hearing in London at the turn of the century, and in 1913 he was able to introduce his music to Vienna. His opera, The Alchemist, had its first perform...
However, the popularity of the guitar slowly declined in the second half of the nineteenth century in Yugoslavia. The new guitar era in Yugoslavia A new era in the development of the guitar in Yugoslavia began at the begining of the twentieth century, influenced by many famous music centers ...
Well, some of theStudiesare indeed very fine music. But it may be an interesting idea that Villa-Lobos was perhaps very much influenced by Mauro Giuliani and the nineteenth-century school of guitar playing. I don’t think he was so interested or into the Tárrega school of pla...
In my own collection you may find an anonymous six-course Spanish or Portuguese guitar as well as an anoymous French guitar from the first decades of the nineteenth centuryThe first printed Swedish music for the guitar was published in 1818 by Friedrich Ludwig Fehr and Johan Carl Müller, two...
Eric Clapton playing a Fender StratocasterBritish blues rock musician Eric Clapton playing a Fender Stratocaster in London, 2008. In the 20th century,Andrés Segoviagave the guitar further prominence as a concert instrument, and composers such asHeitor Villa-LobosandManuel de Fallawrote serious works ...
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Spain produced many outstanding virtuosi at this time and it is unquestionable that guitar music flourished in nineteenth century Spain. Yet, the Spanish guitar virtuosi and the Spanish exponents of the instrument achieved their great success outside their native country. Fernando Sor exemplified these...