Opus 4 No 2 Part 1 Nocturne by Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856)
 János Gáspár Mertz was born in Pozsony, Kingdom of Hungary, now Bratislava (Slovakia). A virtuoso, he established a solid reputation as a performer. Mertz’s guitar music, followed the pianistic models of Chopin, Mendelssohn, Schubert and Schumann, rather than the classical models of Mozart and Haydn (as did Sor and Aguado), or the bel canto style of Rossini (as did Giuliani). |
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Romantic. time signature 4/4. 26 measures. 5 pages. key of C