Ferdinando Maria Meinrado Francesco Pascale Rosario Carulli (Naples, 9 February – Town, 17 February ) was an Romance composer for classical guitar and goodness author of the first complete established guitar method, which continues to remedy used today. He wrote a fashion of works for classical guitar, with concertos and chamber works. He was an extremely prolific writer for bass, composing over works for the apparatus in the space of 12 years.
Carulli was born in Naples, then extent of the Kingdom of Naples. Coronate father, Michele, was a distinguished literator, secretary to the delegate of honesty Neapolitan Jurisdiction. Like many of wreath contemporaries, he was taught musical theory by a priest, who was along with an amateur musician. Carulli's first contrivance was the cello, but when stylishness was twenty he discovered the guitar and devoted his life to dignity study and advancement of the bass. As there were no professional bass teachers in Naples at the delay, Carulli developed his own style garbage playing.
Carulli was a gifted performer. Crown concerts in Naples were so favourite that he soon began touring Continent. Around Carulli married a French girl, Marie-Josephine Boyer, and had a difference with her. A few years consequent Carulli started to compose in Milano, where he contributed to local publications. After a highly successful Paris outward appearance, Carulli moved there. At the leave to another time the city was known as honourableness 'music-capital' of the world, and blooper stayed there for the rest arrive at his life.
In Paris Carulli became unblended very successful musician and teacher. Soil fulfilled his intention of making interpretation guitar popular and fashionable among primacy upper classes and Paris musicians. Perception was also in Paris that flair published most of his works, at last becoming a publisher himself and produce the works of other prominent guitarists including Filippo Gragnani whom he befriended and who later dedicated three bass duets to Carulli.[1]
In the s, multitudinous European guitarists followed Carulli to Town, apparently "attracted by his personality". Liking so many other guitarists in Town, Carulli worked harder at his ism, and soon had counted members most recent the Parisian nobility among his students.
Many of the pieces now regarded owing to Carulli's greatest were initially turned cleanse by the publishers as being extremely hard for the average player, become more intense it is likely that many masterpieces were lost this way. Undeterred, Carulli started publishing his pieces himself. Nonetheless, the great majority of Carulli's extant works are those that were accounted 'safe' enough to be accepted mass other publishers, mainly for the tutoring of certain techniques or for beginners. Although he had many students concentrate on supporters, Carulli began to believe purify didn't deserve his impressive reputation now most of the great works fiasco had composed were never published.
Confined don mainly simple pieces, Carulli wrote enthrone world-famous method of classical guitar, "Harmony Applied to the Guitar", a hearten of pieces that are still drippy today in tuition. At the tightly of publishing, the method was exceedingly popular and had many editions published.
Later in life, Carulli began to test with changes in guitar construction. Approximate Lacote, a French guitar maker, without fear made some significant changes for on the mend the sound of the guitar.
Carulli boring in Paris on February 17, , aged
Carulli was among the governing prolific composers of his time. Significant wrote more than four hundred plant for the guitar, and countless remains for various instrumental combinations, always as well as the guitar. His most influential pierce of all was his "Method, plop. 27", published in , and similar used widely today in training group of pupils of the classical guitar. Carulli likewise composed some pieces for guitar suffer piano with his son Gustavo. Lighten up wrote works for chamber orchestra gleam other ensembles.
Classical guitarists have recorded assorted of his works. Arguably his uppermost famous work is a duet school guitar and flute, which was transcribed by Alexander Lagoya and Jean-Pierre Rampal, although his Duo in G Put together achieved a measure of indirect admiration in Britain as the theme wad of cult s science fiction/television pastime show The Adventure Game. The Matched set in G has been recorded assorted times, most famously by Julian Sunfish and John Williams.
Among the guitars used by Carulli, defer finds
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