Wedding Day at Troldhaugen by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Edvard Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt (which includes Morning Mood and In the Hall of the Mountain King), and for his collection of piano …
Una Flor by José Brocá (1805–1882) José Brocá was a Spanish guitarist and composer of the Romantic period. Mainly self-taught on the guitar, he also studied briefly with Dionisio Aguado. He was reputed to have been an excellent performer. As a teacher based in Barcelona, his best-known pupils included Felipe Pedrell and José Ferrer. He …
Chants sans paroles (Opus 2 No.3) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. His wide ranging output includes symphonies, operas, ballets, instrumental, chamber music and songs. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake, …
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Mazurka (Opus 7 No.1) by Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer, virtuoso pianist, and music teacher of French–Polish parentage. A great masters of Romantic music and has been called “the poet of the piano”. He supported himself as a composer and piano teacher, giving few public performances. For most of his …
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El Cortesano by José Brocá (1805–1882) José Brocá was a Spanish guitarist and composer of the Romantic period. Mainly self-taught on the guitar, he also studied briefly with Dionisio Aguado. He was reputed to have been an excellent performer. As a teacher based in Barcelona, his best-known pupils included Felipe Pedrell and José Ferrer. He …
Londón Carapé (Danza Paraguay No.3) by Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944) Barrios’s compositions can be divided into three basic categories: folkloric, imitative and religious. Barrios paid tribute to the music and people of his native land by composing pieces modeled after folk songs from South America and Central America. Imitating the compositional style and techniques of …
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Humoresque by Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944) Barrios’s compositions can be divided into three basic categories: folkloric, imitative and religious. Barrios paid tribute to the music and people of his native land by composing pieces modeled after folk songs from South America and Central America. Imitating the compositional style and techniques of the Baroque and Romantic …
Serenata Espanola (Opus 63) by Jose Ferrer (1835-1916) José Ferrer was a Spanish guitarist and composer, born in Spain. Ferrer studied guitar with his father, a guitarist and collector of sheet music, before continuing his studies with José Brocá. In 1882, he left Spain for Paris in order to teach at the Institut Rudy and …
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Luisito by Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944) Barrios’s compositions can be divided into three basic categories: folkloric, imitative and religious. Barrios paid tribute to the music and people of his native land by composing pieces modeled after folk songs from South America and Central America. Imitating the compositional style and techniques of the Baroque and Romantic …
La Cubana by Julian Arcas (1832-1882) Julián Arcas was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer. Arcas was a teacher to Francisco Tárrega in Barcelona. Arcas wrote fifty two original works and transcriptioned thirty pieces for the guitar, including waltzes, variations, preludes and dances.
