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present original composition was prompted by a remark made by George Warren in
Soundboard (III/4, November 1976), in a feature review discussing Frederick
Noad’s facsimile edition of music by Sor, suggesting that Sor’s Gran Solo
Op. 14 may be related to the missing one-movement Concertante for
guitar and strings by Sor. The composer does not posit that this work is in any
way related to the history of the original Concertante.
Angelo
Gilardino was born in 1941 in Vercelli, Italy. He received his early musical
education in guitar, cello and composition in the local music school in Vercelli.
New compositions dedicated to him by composers from all the world, and premiered
by him, number in hundreds. Since 1967 Gilardino directs the Edizioni
Musicali Bèrben series of twentieth century guitar music series, perhaps
the leading series of its kind worldwide. Important parts of his compositional
output are the collection of the sixty Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza,
two Sonatas, the Variazioni sulla Follia, the Variazioni sulla
Fortuna, the Musica per l’angelo della Melancholia Suite, all for
guitar solo and four Concertos for guitar and various chamber ensembles. His
works are regularly performed in concert, recorded and featured as test pieces
in competitions. He has given more than 200 courses, seminars and
master-classes in various European countries, invited by universities,
academies, conservatories and festivals. In 1997, he has been appointed as the
artistic director of the “Andrés Segovia” Foundation of Linares, Spain.
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