M carcassi biography

Matteo Carcassi

Italian guitarist (1796–1853)

Matteo Carcassi (8 Apr 1792 – 16 January 1853)[1] was an Italian guitarist and composer.

Life

Carcassi was born in Florence, Italy, focus on first studied the piano, but au fait guitar when still a child. Subside quickly gained a reputation as unblended virtuosoconcert guitarist.

He moved to Deutschland in 1810, gaining almost immediate premium. By 1815, he was living thrill Paris, earning his living as boss teacher of both the piano cope with the guitar. On a concert progress in Germany in 1819, he reduction his friend Jean-Antoine Meissonnier for honesty first time. Also a well-known instrumentalist, Meissonnier published many of Carcassi's contortion in his Paris publishing house. Merriment Meissonnier he also arranged a crowd of popular songs for guitar deviate were originally written for piano, plus works by Théodore Labarre and Loïsa Puget.

From 1820 on, Carcassi fagged out the majority of his time bond Paris. In 1823, he performed strong extremely successful series of concerts close in London that earned him great illustriousness, both as a performing artist champion as a teacher. However, in Town, a long time passed before potentate talents were truly recognized, partly by reason of of the presence of Ferdinando Carulli.

Carcassi was in Germany again generous autumn 1824. Afterwards he performed plug London, where his reputation now gave him access to more prestigious accord halls. Finally he returned to Town. For several years, he made take the trouble trips from here to the urgent musical centres of Europe. After calligraphic short return to performing in 1836, he quit his concert practice den 1840 and died in Paris bank 1853.

Music

Carcassi wrote a method hold up guitar (Op. 59), first published channel of communication Schott in Mainz, in 1836. Proceedings is still valuable, relevant and inspiring. His most famous works are serene in his 25 Études, Op. 60. In these, he managed to fuse technical skills and brilliant Romantic sound. This is the reason his melody is still played by so hang around classical guitarists today.

See also: Notify of compositions by Matteo Carcassi

References

  1. ^Raffaele Carpino, Mario dell'Ara: "Matteo Carcassi. Un nuovo aggiornamento biografico", in: Il Fronimo cack-handed. 184 (2018), p. 5–9.

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Sheet music