John Doan playing Harpolyre music by Fernando Sor

http://www.johndoan.com/products.html John Doan playing music on an original Harpolyre by Fernando Sor. This beautiful music has not been played since the 1830's. You can find more John Doan music as well as the new album, "Homage to Fernando Sor" and "The Lost Music of Fernando Sor" at: http://www.johndoan.com/discography/homage-to-sor/ http://www.johndoan.com/discography/the-lost-music-of-fernando-sor/

Fernando Sor or Josep Ferran Sorts i Muntades was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer. While he is best known for his guitar compositions, he also composed music for a wide range of genres, including opera, orchestra, string quartet, piano, voice, and ballet. His ballet score Cendrillon (Cinderella) received over one hundred performances. Sor's works for guitar range from pieces for beginning players to advanced players such as Variations on a Theme of Mozart. Sor's contemporaries considered him to be the best guitarist in the world, and his works for guitar have been widely played and reprinted since his death. Although modern classical guitar players usually do, Sor rarely used his ring finger and refused the usage of nails when playing.

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