Fernando Sors (1778-1839)
- Sinfonia 'Il Telemaco nell'isola di Calipso' (1796)
Performers: Orquestra de Cambra del Garraf; Joan Lluís Morаledа (conductor)
Further info: Fernando Sors (1778-1839) - Obertures i Simfonies
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Spanish composer and guitarist. At the age of 11 he entered the school
of the monastery of Montserrat, where he studied music under the
direction of Anselmo Viola. He wrote a Mass, then attended the Barcelona
military academy. His opera 'Telemaco nell'isola de Calipso' was
premiered at the Teatro de la Santa Cruz (Barcelona, 1796). In 1799 he
went to Madrid, subsequently holding administrative sinecures in
Barcelona (from 1808); also was active in the battle against France, but
about 1810 accepted an administrative post under the French. When
Bonapartist rule was defeated in Spain in 1813, he fled to Paris. There
he met Cherubini, Mehul, and others, who urged him to give concerts as a
guitarist, and he soon acquired fame. His ballet Cendrillon (London,
1822) became quite popular and was given more than 100 times at the
Paris Opera; it was heard at the gala opening of the Bolshoi Theater in
Moscow in 1823. He was active in Russia from 1823; wrote funeral music
for the obsequies of Czar Alexander I in 1825. He returned to Paris via
London in 1826, and subsequently devoted himself to performing and
teaching. Fernando Sors achieved fame as a concert performer on the
guitar and is best known for his more than 65 compositions for that
instrument, which form an important part of the classical guitar
repertory. He took from Moretti the idea of playing on the guitar not
merely chords but music in parts, and acknowledged his debt to Haydn and
Mozart in matters of style.
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