Guitar

Pioneered by guitar legend Andres Segovia in the early twentieth century, Classical Guitarists take everything from simple Baroque compositions to complex concertos and scale them back in a way that makes them performable on an acoustic guitar. Classical composers looked down on the guitar until the end of the nineteenth century. With the exception of material penned by eighteenth century Italian composer Luigi Boccherini and Spanish composer/guitarist Fernando Sor, virtually no minuets nor etudes were composed for the guitar, which was viewed as a popular folk instrument. This changed with Segovia's rise, whereupon the French Neo-Classicist Albert Roussel and the Spanish Joaquin Turina became just two of the many composers who began to write exclusively for guitar.