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His compositions provide some of the most important examples of popular Spanish baroque music for the guitar and now form part of classical guitar pedagogy. Sanz's manuscripts are written as tablature for the baroque guitar and have been transcribed into modern notation by numerous guitarists and editors; Emilio Pujol's edition of Sanz's Canarios being a notable example.
José Marín (ca. 1619–1699) was a Spanish Baroque harpist, guitarist, cantor, and composer noted for his secular songs, tonos humanos. In 1644 he entered the Royal Convent of La Encarnación in Madrid as a tenor. [1] He was a priest and cantor of the capilla real under Felipe IV and Carlos II. [2] His career was marked by scandals and murder ...
Most Renaissance lute music has been transcribed for guitar (see List of composers for lute). The baroque guitar (c.1600–1750) was a string instrument with five courses of gut strings and moveable gut frets. The first (highest pitched) course was sometimes a single string.
The Baroque guitar replaced the lute as the most common instrument found when one was at home. [2] [3] The earliest attestation of a five-stringed guitar comes from the mid-sixteenth-century Spanish book Declaracion de Instrumentos Musicales by Juan Bermudo, published in 1555. [4]
The more extended works require a virtuoso technique and left-hand stretches that are almost impossible on the longer string lengths of modern guitars. (See Frederick Noad, "The Classical Guitar") Aguado returned home to Madrid in 1837 and died there aged 65. [1] Aguado's surname comes from the Spanish word for "soaked."
In his printed collection of guitar music, Resumen de acompañar, Murcia describes himself as Master of Guitar to the Spanish Queen Maria Luisa of Savoy. She was the first wife of the first Bourbon king of Spain, Philip (Felipe) V, a grandson of Louis XIV of France who succeeded to the Spanish throne on the death of Carlos II in November 1700 ...
His CD album Magical Mystery Guitar Tour, released in 2012, is dedicated to the music of the Beatles in his own arrangements for solo guitar. It went to number one on the UK iTunes Classical charts, and a track from the album reached number four in the Singles' charts.
Gaspar Sanz (1640–1710), Baroque era guitar composer; Pablo de Sarasate (1844–1908), Romantic era virtuoso violinist and composer; José Serrano (1873–1941), composer; Juan Sesé y Balaguer (1736–1801), composer; Antonio Soler (1729–1783), wrote sonatas and concertos for the harpsichord and organ