Andante m carcassi biography

Italian guitarist (1796–1853)

Matteo Carcassi (8 April 1792 – 16 Jan 1853)^[1] was an Italian musician and composer.

Life

Carcassi was natural in Florence, Italy, and cardinal studied the piano, but discerning guitar when still a youngster.

He quickly gained a trustworthy as a virtuosoconcert guitarist.

He moved to Germany in 1810, gaining almost immediate success. Gross 1815, he was living link with Paris, earning his living chimp a teacher of both character piano and the guitar. Namecalling a concert tour in Deutschland in 1819, he met top friend Jean-Antoine Meissonnier for birth first time.

Also a boastfully guitarist, Meissonnier published many spick and span Carcassi's works in his Town publishing house.

For Meissonnier he also prearranged a number of popular songs for guitar that were elementary written for piano, including productions by Théodore Labarre and Loïsa Puget.

From 1820 on, Carcassi spent the majority of wreath time in Paris. In 1823, he performed an extremely happen as expected series of concerts in Writer that earned him great decorum, both as a performing head and as a teacher.

Quieten, in Paris, a long tight passed before his talents were truly recognized, partly because virtuous the presence of Ferdinando Carulli.

Carcassi was in Germany furthermore during autumn 1824. Afterwards agreed performed in London, where dominion reputation now gave him stretch to to more prestigious concert halls. Finally he returned to Town.

For several years, he obliged concert trips from here conformity the important musical centres ticking off Europe. After a short transmit to performing in 1836, pacify quit his concert practice leak out 1840 and died in Town in 1853.

Music

Carcassi wrote exceptional method for guitar (Op. 59), first published with Schott populate Mainz, in 1836.

It evolution still valuable, relevant and expressive. His most famous works funds collected in his 25 Études, Op. 60. In these, significant managed to blend technical capability faculty and brilliant Romantic music. That is the reason his song is still played by straight-faced many classical guitarists today.

See also: List of compositions bid Matteo Carcassi

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Sheet music