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The romantic guitar, in use from approximately 1790 to 1830, was the guitar of the Classical and Romantic period of music, showing remarkable consistency in the instrument's construction during these decades. By this time guitars used six, sometimes more, single strings instead of courses.
Music prior to the classical era was often composed for performance on various combinations of instruments, and could be adapted by the performer to keyboard instruments, the lute, or the guitar. Since the beginning of the 20th century, however, a significant amount of music has been written for the guitar by non-guitarist composers.
She studied piano, violin, and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1966 bis 1970. She moved to Germany in 1971, where she discovered the classical guitar in 1973. Her mentor Martin Nicolai, excellent guitarist, composer, viola player and painter, encouraged her to continue after first guitar compositions emerged in 1976.
The following is a non-comprehensive list of composers who have composed original music for the classical guitar, or music which has been arranged for it. This list is sortable by name, nationality and years of birth or death.
"Litmus Distance" is a series of two small pieces for classical guitar, composed by Takashi Yoshimatsu. One of the composer's debut works, he describes it as a new kind of imagined folk music, portraying of the distance of the bedouins. [1] The sheet music for these pieces was issued together in Yoshimatsu : Guitar Works Vol. 2 : Wind color Vector.
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.