I’m pleased to announce that I have published in a digital edition the monograph “Alphonse Meurger: Musician, Composer, Publisher” by Jan W.J. Burgers. It is a fascinating history of a musician’s life in the very early 19th century along with a detailed list of 173 prints of his songs. The Read more…
Below is the current state of my research on the works for guitar by Luigi Castellacci (1797-1845). It is still very rough with a number of duplicated opus numbers. Any rows without a library location have been found via printed references either in journals, newspapers or publishers’ lists. Any rows with only opus numbers have not been found or perhaps might be music for harp which I have not researched yet.
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Since I originally posted in 2012 about the Nakano Collection (original post below) I have been working to add it to my Archive Search feature. It is finally available! Follow this link to show all items from the collection.
The Scheit Archive as cataloged by Stefan Hackl is now available in the Archive Search. Details about the rare items in the archive are available on his site Gitarre-Archiv Österreich and some good background on Scheit and the archive is available in this Classical Guitar article. The Scheit Archive is currently housed at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst (MdW).
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Typescript in Appleby Collection, Guildhall School of Music. Transcribed by Robert Coldwell, May 2019.
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The large encyclopedia of Russian guitar has been made publicly available in PDF format at vk.com by Sergey Bizin.
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After recently acquiring a Russian guitar I’ve gone through a number of pedagogic resources to find those that might help others interested in learning this instrument.
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I am selling my 19th century French-made guitar.
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The latest publication from DGA Editions is now available!
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