Spanish classical guitarists: Andrés Segovia, Narciso Yepes, Fernando Sor, Miguel Llobet, Francisco Tárrega, Gaspar Sanz, Emilio Pujol, Paco de Lucía, Pepe Romero, Dionisio Aguado, José Tomás, Alberto Ponce, Regino Sainz de la Maza, Ricardo Gallén, Bartol

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Chapters: Andrés Segovia, Narciso Yepes, Fernando Sor, Miguel Llobet, Francisco Tárrega, Gaspar Sanz, Emilio Pujol, Paco de Lucía, Pepe Romero, Dionisio Aguado, José Tomás, Alberto Ponce, Regino Sainz de la Maza, Ricardo Gallén, Bartolomé Calatayud, Ángel Romero, Antonio Membrado, Pablo Sáinz Villegas, Celedonio Romero, Julián Arcas, José Ferrer, Gabriel Estarellas, Celin Romero, Paco de Lucena, Rafael Riqueni, José Miguel Moreno. Excerpt: Narciso Yepes (November 14, 1927 ¿ May 3, 1997) was a Spanish guitarist. Yepes was born into a family of humble origin in Lorca, Region of Murcia. His father gave him his first guitar when he was four years old. He took his first lessons from Jesus Guevara, in Lorca. Later his family moved to Valencia when the Spanish Civil War started in 1936. When he was 13, he was accepted to study at the Conservatorio de Valencia with the pianist and composer Vicente Asencio. Here he followed courses in harmony, composition, and performance. On December 16, 1947 he made his Madrid début, performing Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez with Ataúlfo Argenta conducting the Spanish National Orchestra. The overwhelming success of this performance brought him renown from critics and public alike. Soon afterwards, he began to tour with Argenta, visiting Switzerland, Italy, Germany and France. During this time he was largely responsible for the growing popularity of the Concierto de Aranjuez. "A very young Narciso Yepes - not yet enlightened by Argenta's lessons, but surely capable of occupying the hot seat with dignity - gave at least one public performance of "Aranjuez" on 1948" " great Spanish conductor Ataulfo Argenta (1913-1958). He associated Yepes to his project and he taught the guitarist how to perform Aranjuez note by note. Yepes was humble and intelligent enough to do exactly what Argenta had asked him to do. It was only after that historical recording that Aranjuez became a famous piece, and Yepes an even more famous guitarist." "Argenta played the shapes at the piano and the guitarist absorbed them with his skilfullness." "I refer to the interpretation of the piece: in order to have the solo part performed with full consistency to his views (and to the orchestra) Argenta took Yepes under a thorough instruction and he was able to get from him the best. I never implied that Yepes couldn't read pieces himself - he had been given basic music instruction by the composer Vicen