Shostakovich / Castelnuovo-Tedesco / Santorsola: Music for Guitar and Piano

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Franz Halász
Débora Halász
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Dmitri Shostakovich
Guido Santórsola
Hans Haug

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Compositional Technique

Guido Santorsola, a lyrical composer, used 12-tone rows as his main material after 1962, but maintained a conventional rhythmic and metrical approach, resulting in a strongly melodic style.

Historical Context

The guitar fell into obscurity during the late Romantic period, leading to a severe hiatus in its repertoire for about a hundred years.

Historical Context

The combination of guitar and piano in chamber music has seen two periods of significant works: late classicism and the post-World War II period.

Composer Biography

Guido Santorsola, born in Southern Italy, moved to Brazil at age six and later became the director of the Montevideo Conservatory in Uruguay.

Composition History

Dmitri Shostakovich's 24 Preludes, Op. 34, were composed in the winter of 1932-33, between his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and his First Piano Concerto.

Composer Biography

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, an Italian composer, was one of the first non-guitarists to write major works for Andrés Segovia, a Spanish classical guitarist.

Composition History

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Fantasia for Guitar and Piano was composed in 1950 and dedicated to Andrés Segovia, a Spanish classical guitarist, and his wife Paquita Madriguera, a former pupil of Granados.