The Seven-String Guitar in Russia: Its Origins, Repertoire, and Performance Practice, 1800-1850
A wonderful new book by the world’s foremost expert on the history of the Russian seven-string guitar has recently been published.
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Historical Archive of the Music Publishing House Schott: Production Archive
The production archive from B. Schott’s Söhne, Mainz is now located in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. It contains about 80,000 sources, consisting of about 60,000 items of printed music and 20,000 music manuscripts.
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The Guitar à la Sagrini
Erik Pierre Hofmann has a wonderful article on the “Guitar à la Sagrini” available for free from his website:
https://www.fine-antique-and-classical-guitars.com/editions-des-robins-en/
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Luigi Legnani’s Missing Opus 9
An updated English version of my article on Luigi Legnani’s missing opus 9 has been published by Soundboard Scholar. The original version was first published in Italian in il Fronimo n. 194 in April 2021 and in Japanese in Gendai Guitar n. 696 September 2021. A full facsimile of the original Legnani opus 9 edition is included with the article.
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История гитары в лицах [History of the guitar in faces]
История гитары в лицах [History of the guitar in faces] has been published by Victor V. Tavrovsky in Ukraine since 2012.
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Otto Feder – Articles on the Guitar, 1856
Otto Feder (1820-??), a native of Germany, was a guitarist active in the United States from the mid-1850s to 1869.
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The Works of Justin Holland and Justin Minor Holland
The complete known published and unpublished compositions of Justin Holland (1819-1887) and his son Justin Minor Holland (1848-1917) are listed here.
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il Fronimo rivista di chitarra
il Fronimo has been published in Milan, Italy since October 1972.
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Resonanzen, Rundschrift für Blockflöte und Gitarre
Resonanzen was published in Salzburg, Austria from 1973 to 1975.
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Kurier Warszawski. N.188, 21 July 1856 (page 977)
The somewhat abandoned musical instrument, which is the guitar, and temporarily picked up by our colleague Szczepanowski, is to take its place again in the row of salon instruments. To this end, one of the music lovers P. Makarov appointed cash prizes. The competition will be held in Brussels and Read more…