Andrés Segovia

Andrés Segovia was a Spanish classical guitarist whose solo recitals, transcriptions, and commissioned works helped establish the guitar as a concert instrument.

Francisco Tárrega: A Spanish guitarist and composer whose teaching and compositions shaped modern classical guitar technique and repertoire. Segovia inherited a guitar tradition that Tárrega had helped develop.
Classical guitar: A nylon- or gut-stringed guitar used in classical music, played with the fingers rather than a pick. Segovia made this instrument a fixture of solo concert life.
Segovia guitar: A concert guitar associated with Andrés Segovia and the design standards he promoted. Segovia favored instruments suited to the projection and tonal balance his recital style required.
Fernando Sor: A Spanish guitarist and composer of the early nineteenth century, renowned for guitar studies and sonatas. Sor’s earlier concert career shows that Segovia built on a history of professional guitar performance.
Miguel Llobet: A Spanish classical guitarist and composer known for arrangements of Catalan folk songs. Llobet was an earlier Spanish concert guitarist who helped establish the instrument’s recital tradition.
Guitar concerto: A concerto in which a guitar performs as soloist with an orchestra. Segovia’s advocacy helped persuade composers to write concertos for the guitar.
Classical guitar technique: The methods of posture, fingering, and sound production used to play classical guitar. His right-hand approach and sound became influential models for concert guitarists.
Francisco Tárrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra: A tremolo study for solo guitar composed by Francisco Tárrega. Its established place in guitar recital tradition contrasts with Segovia’s push for new commissioned repertoire.
Federico Moreno Torroba: A Spanish composer whose works include concert music for guitar. Segovia encouraged Torroba to write original works for the guitar.
Guitar transcription: An arrangement that adapts music written for another instrument or ensemble to the guitar. His transcriptions brought established works into the guitar’s solo repertoire.

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