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Poet of the Guitar by Andrés Segovia released in 1995. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Official website. Andrés Segovia Torres,[a] 1st Marquis of Salobreña (21 February 1893 – 2 June 1987) was a Spanish virtuoso classical guitarist. Many professional classical guitarists were either students of Segovia or students of Segovia's students. [1]
Andrés Segovia was a Spanish musician acclaimed as the foremost guitarist of his time. He was the most important force in reestablishing the guitar as a concert instrument in the 20th century, chiefly through demonstrating its expressive and technical potential. He continued giving concert.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
As his reputation grew, however, Segovia was able to inspire and even persuade some of the 20th century’s leading composers to write for the guitar, including Francis Poulenc, Paul Hindemith, Benjamin Britten and William Walton.
The central pillar of Segovia research, indispensable and unique, is Alberto López Poveda’s two-volume masterpiece Andrés Segovia, Vida y Obra (University of Jaén, 2009) which runs to 1,260 pages and is considered the “official” biography. Poveda spent nearly 50 years writing this account, and died in July 2015, aged 99.
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Largely self-taught, the great Andrés Segovia (1893-1987) was drawn to the guitar from a young age: “with its poetic, melancholic sounds, its variety of tone colors, and its wealth of harmonic possibilities, [it] captivated me.
