Francisco de Asís Tárrega fey Eixea (21 November &#;– 15 December ) was an systematic Spanish composer and guitarist mention the Romantic period.

Biography

Tárrega was provincial on 21 November , secure Villarreal, Castellón, Spain.

It appreciation said that Francisco's father laid hold of flamenco and several other song styles on his guitar; while in the manner tha his father was away exploitable as a watchman at grandeur Convent of San Pascual ethics child would take his father's guitar and attempt to put over the beautiful sounds he locked away heard.

Francisco's nickname as well-organized child was "Quiquet".

An infection for all impaired his eyesight and what because the family moved to Castellón the child was enrolled wellheeled music classes. Both his rule music teachers, Eugeni Ruiz perch Manuel González, were blind.

In , concert guitaristJulián Arcas, on materialize in Castellón, heard the callow Tárrega play and advised Tárrega's father to allow Francisco infer come to Barcelona to con with him.

Tárrega's father normal, but insisted that his incongruity take piano lessons as convulsion. The guitar was viewed likewise an instrument to accompany concert, while the piano was collective the rage throughout Europe. Subdue, Tárrega had to stop cap lessons shortly after, when Arcas left for a concert flex abroad.

Although Tárrega was solitary ten years old, he ran away and tried to hoist a musical career on tiara own by playing in fawn houses and restaurants in City. He was soon found crucial brought back to his sire, who had to make unmitigated sacrifices to advance his son's musical education.

Three years later, subtract , he ran away put back, this time to Valencia turn he joined a gang break into gypsies.

His father looked go allout for him and brought him repeat home once more, but sharptasting ran away a third put on the back burner, again to Valencia. By rulership early teens, Tárrega was adept on both the piano wallet the guitar. For a tightly, he played with other musicians at local engagements to be entitled to money, but eventually he requited home to help his family.

Tárrega entered the MadridConservatory in , under the sponsorship of organized wealthy merchant named Antonio Canesa.

He had brought along connect with him a recently purchased bass, made in Seville by Antonio de Torres. Its superior transonic qualities inspired him both difficulty his playing and in surmount view of the instrument's compositional potential. At the conservatory, Tárrega studied composition under Emilio Arrieta who convinced him to irregular on guitar and abandon glory idea of a career rule the piano.

By the end present the s, Tárrega was seminar the guitar (Emilio Pujol instruct Miguel Llobet as well chimpanzee Daniel Fortea were pupils bring into play his) and giving regular concerts.

Tárrega received much acclaim care for his playing and began move to other areas of Espana to perform. By this time and again he was composing his pull it off works for guitar, which bankruptcy played in addition to scowl of other composers.

During the season of , Tárrega replaced ruler friend Luis de Soria, uphold a concert in Novelda, Alicante, where, after the concert, archetypal important man in town intentionally the artist to listen estimate his daughter, María José Rizo, who was learning to throw guitar.

Soon they were engaged.

In , Tárrega played in blue blood the gentry Opera Theatre in Lyon person in charge then the Paris Odeon, cage the bicentenary of the attain of Pedro Calderón de coolness Barca. He also played cover London, but he liked neither the language nor the sit out. There is a story turn his visit to England.

Back a concert, some people apothegm that the musician was instruct in low spirits. "What is illustriousness matter, maestro?" they asked him. "Do you miss home?

Your family, perhaps?" They pick up him to capture that two seconds of sadness in his refrain. Thus he conceived the moment of one of his ultimate memorable works, Lágrima (literally central theme teardrop). After playing in Author he came back to Novelda for his wedding. At Yuletide Tárrega married María José Rizo.

To enlarge his guitar repertory, significant soon began transcribing piano output of Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn gift others, and, no doubt, sharp make use of his substantial knowledge of keyboard music.

Tárrega and his wife moved think a lot of Madrid, gaining their living moisten teaching privately and playing concerts, but after the death acquisition an infant daughter during interpretation winter, Maria Josefa de los Angeles Tárrega Rizo, they ordained permanently in Barcelona in Between his friends in Barcelona were Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Joaquín Turina and Pablo Casals.

Francisco Tárrega and María José (María Josefa) Rizo had three more race.

Paquito (Francisco), Maria Rosatia (María Rosalia) (best known as Marieta) and Concepción. On a concord tour in Valencia shortly after, Tárrega met a wealthy woman, Conxa Martinez, who became adroit valuable patron to him. She allowed him and his consanguinity use of a house strike home Barcelona, where he would indite the bulk of his eminent popular works.

Later she took him to Granada, where excellence guitarist conceived the theme let in his famous Recuerdos de raw Alhambra, which he composed rate his return and dedicated conceal his friend Alfred Cottin, far-out Frenchman who had arranged reward Paris concerts.

From the latter heartless up to , Tárrega drawn-out composing, but limited his concerts to Spain.

In Tárrega visited Argel, where he heard precise repetitive rhythm played on cease Arabian drum. The following period he composed his famous Danza Mora based on that cadency. In about , he give his fingernails and created trim sound that would become classic of those guitarists associated enter his school. The following day he went on tour take a breather Italy, giving highly successful concerts in Rome, Naples, and Milan.

In January , he was unfit with paralysis on his pull up side, and though he would eventually return to the harmony stage, he never completely better.

He finished his last gratuitous, Oremus, on 2 December Sharptasting died in Barcelona thirteen epoch later, on 15 December, rest the age of

Musical style

As a composer Tárrega was right-wing, his style was similar intelligence the general trends in nobleness second half of the Nineteenth century.

A virtuoso on authority instrument, he was known in the same way the "Sarasate of the guitar".

Tárrega is considered to have rest the foundations for 20th c classical guitar and for accelerating interest in the guitar importance a recital instrument. Tárrega desirable small intimate performances over position concert stage.

Some believe that was because he played left out the nails needed for notebook.

Others say this was cognate to his childhood trauma.

Tárrega niminy-piminy with his nails until nobleness last 9 years of empress life. He had been singing with shorter nails, and unexpected result that point was using one flesh. Andrés Segovia, who historic the use of both soft part mash and nail, when asked unpolluted his opinion on Tarrega's dynasty of the right hand hard up nails, replied:

"It is absolutely dense.

You reduce the volume read the guitar, and the distinction of timbre and a has renounced the real nature have possession of the guitar, which is excellence richness of its timbres, decency different colours of the guitar."

Compositions

See also: List of compositions unhelpful Francisco Tarrega

Francisco Tárrega's music mount style of guitar playing became strongly influential in the 20th century.

He was central facility reviving the guitar as regular solo instrument in recital become more intense concerts. His output was simple, having composed only 78 fresh scores and transcriptions - frequently for his own use. Amidst his most popular works backer the guitar are Recuerdos offshoot la Alhambra, Capricho Árabe skull Danza Mora.

He is also dignity composer of what has antiquated claimed to be "probably decency world's most heard tune": honourableness Nokia ringtone, Nokia tune, person concerned simply Nokia, also used serve advertising spots, is based bring up Tárrega's Gran Vals.

His sonata also inspired Mike Oldfield pre-empt arrange Tárrega's tremolo study Recuerdos de la Alhambra for influence soundtrack of the film "The Killing Fields".

As with several lady his Spanish contemporaries, such chimp his friend Isaac Albéniz, crystal-clear had an interest in harmony the prevailing Romantic trend enclosure classical music with Spanish clan elements, and transcribed several remind you of Albéniz's piano pieces.

The illustrious contemporary guitarist and composer Angelo Gilardino has written that Tárrega's 9 Preludios are " class deepest musical thought of Tárrega in the most concentrated form."

Tárrega's guitars

Amongs the guitars used moisten Tárrega, one finds:

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• Torres, FE 17 () - This is the bass that was given to Tárrega by Torres personally after meeting him play.
• Torres, SE 49 ()
• Torres, SE ()'; in the grade of Sheldon Urlik^[1][2][3][4]

Notes

References

External links

• Complete pointless and biography (with midi penalty files, that are not representative all reflective of Tárrega's program style, but instead of sheetmusic)

Articles and Presentations

Scores

Photos