The Great Vogue for the Guitar in Western Europe

1800-1840
The first book devoted to the composers, instrument makers and amateur players who advanced the great guitar vogue throughout Western Europe during the early decades of the nineteenth century.
The first book devoted to the composers, instrument makers and amateur players who advanced the great guitar vogue throughout Western Europe during the early decades of the nineteenth century.Contemporary critics viewed the fashion for the guitar with sheer hostility, seeing in it a rejection of true musical value. After all, such trends advanced against the grain of mainstream musical developments of ground-breaking (often Austro-German) repertoire for standard instruments. Yet amateur musicians throughout Europe persisted; many instruments were built to meet the demand, a substantial volume of music was published for amateurs to play, and soloist-composers moved freely between European cities. This book follows these lines of travel venturing as far as Moscow, and visiting all the great musical cities of the period, from London to Vienna, Madrid to Naples. The first section of the book looks at eighteenth-century precedents, the instrument - its makers and owners, amateur and professional musicians, printing and publishing, pedagogy, as well as aspects of repertoire. The second section explores the extensive repertoire for accompanied song and chamber music. A final substantive section assembles chapters on a wide array of the most significant soloist-composers of the time. The chapters evoke the guitar milieu in the various cities where each composer-player worked and offer a discussion of some representative works. This book, bringing together an international tally of contributors and never before examined sources, will be of interest to devotees of the guitar, as well as music historians of the Romantic period.

Contributor: Gerhard Penn (Contributions by), James Westbrook (Edited by), Christopher Page (Edited by), Kenneth Sparr (Contributions by), Jelma van Amersfoort (Contributions by), James Westbrook (Contributions by), Sarah Clarke (Contributions by), Paul Sparks (Contributions by), Erik Stenstadvold (Contributions by), Jukka Savijoki (Contributions by), Jenny Nex (Contributions by), Luis Briso de Montiano (Contributions by), Richard Savino (Contributions by), Mario Torta (Contributions by), Nicoletta Confalone (Contributions by), Paul Sparks (Edited by), Damián Martín Gíl (Contributions by), Christopher Page (Contributions by)

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