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Andrew York
Andrew York was born in 1958 in the United States and is one of the remarkable, most visible and innovative classical guitarist-composers of our time. He grew up in Woodbridge, Virginia, and graduated... (read more)
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Francisco Tarrega
Francisco Tarrega-Eixea was born in Vila-real on November 21st, 1852, in a house beside the Saint Paschal Baylon sanctuary. Both his father Francisco Tarrega-Tirado and his mother Antonia Eixea-Broch ... (read more)
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Johann Kaspar Mertz
Johann Kaspar Mertz was born in 1806 Pressburg, the Hungarian Pozsony, now the Slovakian capital, Bratislava. He learned the guitar and flute. Little is known of his early life but by 1840 he was esta... (read more)
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Juan Manen
Joan (Juan) Manén was born in 1883 in Barcelona, Spain and was a leading figure in the music of Catalonia. He started playing the piano with his father at the age of three, rapidly progressing. Later,... (read more)
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Miguel Llobet
Miguel Llobet Soles was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1878. He began studying the guitar at the age of eleven with Magín Alegre who in that same year took him to hear the blind Spanish virtuoso of the g... (read more)
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Antonio Jose
Antonio Jose was born on 12th December 1902 in Burgos, Spain. He was praised by Maurice Ravel as one who would 'become the greatest Spanish musician of our century', but his arrest and execution near ... (read more)
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Heitor Villa Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos was born in 1887 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is one of the prolific composers of his time. He started his studies at the age of six with his father, who worked as a librarian and ... (read more)
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Mauro Giuliani
Mauro Giuliani was born on the 27th of July 1781 in Bisceglie, Italy. He was an Italian guitarist and composer known by many as a leading virtuoso of the nineteenth century. He began his studies in Ba... (read more)
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