Andrés Segovia

Andrés Segovia ( born February 21, 1893 in Linares, † June 2, 1987 in Madrid) was a Spanish guitarist. He had great influence on the development of the classical guitar playing in the 20th century.

Life

At age fourteen Segovia gave concerts in Spain. Later he made the classic guitar on worldwide tours popular. They say he was a student of Miguel Llobet 1915, but this is not without controversy in the professional world.

Numerous compositions, which have become classical guitar repertoire, have been written especially for him, such as by Manuel María Ponce (1882-1948), Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982), Joaquin Turina (1882-1949), Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986), Heitor Villa -Lobos (1887-1959), Frederic Mompou (1893-1987), Mario Castelnuovo- Tedesco (1895-1968), Frank Martin (1890-1974) and John William Duarte. Also, go many transcriptions of works originally written for other instruments and are now part of the standard repertoire for guitar, back at him. The best known example is probably the Chaconne from the Partita in D minor for solo violin by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Segovia also taught at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, in Santiago de Compostela and the University of California at Berkeley. Many great guitarists were his pupils, such as Oscar Ghiglia ( b. 1938 ), Christopher Parkening ( b. 1947 ) and John Williams ( b. 1941 ).

1974 Segovia was awarded the Léonie Sonning Music Prize and in 1985 with the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize. He was an honorary doctor of several universities ( Oxford and Others ), and has been from the Spanish king ennobled ( " Marqués de Salobreña "). In his native city of Linares is now home to a museum which also contains a crypt with his sarcophagus.

Segovia played on instruments of Benito Ferrer, Santos Hernández, Manuel Ramírez and José Ramírez, Hermann Hauser and Ignacio Fleta. The blueprint of his famous Hauser I in 1937, which today is located in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art may be purchased from the American guitar maker Richard Brune.

Known students

Bibliography

  • Andrés Segovia: An Autobiography of the Years 1893-1920. Boyars, London 1976, ISBN 0-026-09080-5.
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