Fernando Sors (1778-1839) - Sinfonia 'Il Telemaco nell'isola di Calipso' (1796)

Fernando Sors (1778-1839) - Sinfonia 'Il Telemaco nell'isola di Calipso' (1796)

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Moltes felicitats Fernando Sors! 🎭🥂

Composer: Fernando Sors (1778-1839)
Work: Sinfonia 'Il Telemaco nell'isola di Calipso' (1796)
Performers: Orquestra de Cambra del Garraf; Joan Lluís Morаledа (conductor)

Drawing: Paul André Basset (fl. 1793-1819) - View of Barcelona
HD image: https://flic.kr/p/2pxEvkZ

Further info: https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Sor,_Fernando
Listen free: https://youtu.be/QhIUS7XlqFQ

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(Joseph) Fernando (Macari) Sors [Sor]
(Barcelona, 13 February 1778 - Paris, 10 July 1839)

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.