Biblioteca de la Guitarra y Cuerda Pulsada

The discovery of the manuscript of Lennox Berkeley’s Quatre Pièces pour la Guitare in Segovia’s archive in May 2001 was one of the more remarkable findings in a cache that yielded many surprises. In this article I will look briefly at the background to Berkeley’s Quatre Pièces, and in Part 2 I will look at the work itself. Although the manuscript of the Quatre Pièces is undated, it seems virtually certain that it was written in the late 1920s, when Berkeley was a...