Biblioteca de la Guitarra y Cuerda Pulsada

Given his brief lifespan, the multi-talented musician Paolo Sandrini made a considerable impact in his thirty-one years. He was born in Gorizia, in what is now the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, an area representing a border between various ethnicities, most especially those speaking Germanic, Italian, and Slavic languages. At the time when Sandrini was born, Gorizia was part of the Holy Roman Empire, governed politically from Vienna. Culturally, the coastal regions east of Venice were predominantly Italian, usually speaking the Venetian dialect, at least as far as Fiume (now Rijeka). German encyclopedias who inform us about Sandrini give no details about his activities prior to arriving in the north, but according to the late Slovene scholar Danilo Pokorn Sandrini had been first oboe in the orchestra in Ljubljana (Laibach), and left that position to go to Prague (both Laibach and Prague then being secondary cities under the Emperor in...