Bartolomé Calatayud - Cuatro Piezas Faciles Para Guitarra

Bartolomé Calatayud - Cuatro Piezas Faciles Para Guitarra

0:00 1. Vals
1:03 2. Romanza
2:30 3. Pasodobillo
4:20 4. Cancion De Cuna (Tema Popular Mallorquin)

Cuatro Piezas Para Guitarra means four easy pieces for guitar. The four pieces represent the atmosphere of Spanish/Mallorcan music with differenct characters. They are not that difficult to play, the Vals is available for beginner guitar players and the Romanza, Pasodobillo and Cancion De Cuna are easier intermediate pieces.

"Bartolomé Calatayud was a Spanish classical guitar composer, teacher and performer. He was born in 1882 on the island of Mallorca. In 1899, while still a teenager, he was awarded the Diploma of Honor 1st Class by the Workers Instructive Center Palma for his "superior musical knowledge in guitar playing." A contemporary and friend of Miguel Llobet and Andrés Segovia, he studied guitar first with Pedro Antonio Alemany Palmer (Palma 1862–1952), and then with Antonio Gomez Melters (1839–1908). He studied harmony and composition with the great Majorcan musicologist and composer D. Antonio Noguera. Bartolomé was also taught by Francisco Tárrega in Valencia.

He gave concerts in Spain, France, Switzerland, Portugal and Algiers and toured South America with Spanish Chorus and Dance groups. In Majorca he composed many works for the classical guitar and taught the instrument.[Many of his guitar works are based on popular Catalan/Majorcan folk music.

Although less famous in the classical guitar world, Bartolomé Calatayud has left much enjoyable and exciting music written for classical guitarists of all abilities. He taught many pupils in Majorca during his final years. He died in 1973 at the age of 90." - wikipedia.org

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