Guitar and Lute

Giovanni Battista Marella by Thomas StieglerToday there are only a few people left who are interested in the work of the French composer G. B. Marella. Probably the only one of his works that is still regularly heard is his Suite in A major. Yet there are still so...

Alirio Díaz by Thomas StieglerIn the highlands of Carora, until a few years ago you could see a man standing in the fields at dawn listening to the singing of birds. A lonely man, perhaps, who looked at the blowing of a leaf, followed the flight of the condor and...

Narciso García Yepes     von Thomas StieglerThe Legend   A Spanish fair, early 1930s. With shining eyes a little boy stands in the midst of the hustle and bustle and can't take his eyes off an old guitar. Until his father approaches, puts a warm hand on...

Humanism in music by Bernhard Reichel"Here is that Raphael, whom the great mother of all things feared to be surpassed as long as he lived, and to die as he died." (Pietro Bembo)Raphael Sanzio, one of the most important painters of the Italian Renaissance, died on...