The history of the guitar

“The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Each string has a different colour, a different voice.” (A. Segovia)

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The history of the guitar and its music

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Andres Segovia

He was without question the most important classical guitarist of the 20th century.

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Niccolo Paganini

“The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.”

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The classical guitar

The shape of today’s guitar goes back to the Spaniard Antonio de Torres.

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Theorbo

Panpipe-like instruments were the predominant type in the early Middle Ages.

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Baroque guitar

The piccolo is the highest classical woodwind instrument.

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H. W. Longfellow

“Music is the common language of humanity.”

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Homenaje de Debussy

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Homenaje de Debussyby Thomas StieglerA work so multi-layered that the English composer Benjamin Britten was once to say: »The piece is only seven minutes long, but there are twenty minutes of music in it.« [1] - whereas a performance of the piece lasts barely three...

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Even though the work may sound strange to untrained listeners, it is one of the most beautiful and interesting works of classical guitar.

The Prince’s Toys

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The Prince's Toysby Thomas StieglerThere are different ways to travel the world, and each of us will in the course of our lives find our own approach to it somewhere between two extremes. At one end of the scale, there are those people who move from country to...

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The history of the guitar