Fernando Sor - An analysis of Sonata for Guitar (op. 15b)
Though Fernando Sor is widely recognized as the principal guitar composer of the classic-romantic period, his catalogue is relatively modest in terms of large-scale works for the guitar – a result, at least partly, of the considerable energies he expended at various times in his career on vocal music and the grander genres of opera and ballet combined, no doubt, with the demands of his publishers for marketable items of guitar music. Consequently, Sor’s output of sonatas – the principal compositional genre for instruments of the time – was sporadic and totaled only four named works (along with a fantasia in sonata form). Nevertheless, these works, which span Sor’s compositional career, are ambitious compositions which allow us a glimpse of their their composer at two very different stages of his...
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