Musical Miniatures for the Classical Guitar - Steven Saulls, Classical Guitarist
About the music and composer...
Fandanguillo is the second work from a collection of three short pieces titled “Tres Piezas para Guitarra” by Bartolomé Calatayud. This is one of Bartolomé Calatayud’s many popular pieces and was published in a collection titled “The Guitar Music of Spain, Volume One: Over Fifty Traditional Pieces“.
Bartolomé Calatayud (September 8, 1882– April 11, 1973) was a Spanish classical guitar composer, teacher and performer. He was born in 1882 on the island of Mallorca. In 1899, while still a teenager, he was awarded the Diploma of Honour 1st Class by the Workers Instructive Centre Palma for his “superior musical knowledge in guitar playing.“ A contemporary and friend of Miguel Llobet and Andrés Segovia, he studied guitar first with Pedro Antonio Alemany Palmer (Palma 1862–1952), and then with Antonio Gomez Melters (1839–1908). He studied ha