Lorenzo Micheli - Aguado: Works for Solo Guitar (2000)
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Genre: Classical / Label: Stradivarius
Between the XVIII and XIX century, throughout Europe the guitar began to win back the popularity it had not enjoyed for nearly a hundred years and again became a common sight everywhere. The capital cities of music par excellence Paris and Vienna were soon to become the major centre of this phenomenon, particularly from just before 1810 until 1840, when they became a veritable hive of activity. This revival of the guitar’s fortunes was the work of virtuoso performers, mainly from Italy and Spain, who taught, composed and gave concerts up and down the continent. The pre-eminence of Paris and Vienna was in no small part due to the presence there of the greatest guitarists of the nineteenth century: the Catalan Fernando Sor and his favourite pupil Napoléon Coste, Dionisio Aguado from Madrid, Ferdinando Carulli and Francesco Molino from Italy were all active in Paris, while Mauro Giuliani was the guitarist to be reckoned with in Vienna (although Giuliani’s reputation subsequently fell into disrepute and his work was rediscovered and its true worth recognized only in the 1960’s).