Music for the purpose of an improvement in technique
have been published for many centuries. These works
used titles such as "lesson" or "study", and then later
"etude". Some examples of such books include John
Dowland's "Varietie of Lute Lessons" and Johann
Sebastian Bach's four volumes of Clavier-Übung
(keyboard practice). These books often contained pieces
in order of increasing difficulty.
This guitarist was born in Barcelona, Spain. Fernando
Sor was descended from a family of car...(+)
Music for the purpose of an improvement in technique
have been published for many centuries. These works
used titles such as "lesson" or "study", and then later
"etude". Some examples of such books include John
Dowland's "Varietie of Lute Lessons" and Johann
Sebastian Bach's four volumes of Clavier-Übung
(keyboard practice). These books often contained pieces
in order of increasing difficulty.
This guitarist was born in Barcelona, Spain. Fernando
Sor was descended from a family of career soldiers, and
initially planned to continue in this life. However his
love of music was sparked after he was introduced to
Italian opera, and to the guitar by his father. His
mother saw his musical interests as a distraction from
a military career, and so enrolled him in a military
school. Sor continued to thrive musically though, by
composing in his spare time.