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Sor’s Guitar Music—a Fresh Start
by Erik Stenstadvold
Soundboard Scholar, no. 6 (2020), 4–10
Bibliography
Beer, Axel. Musik zwischen Komponist, Verlag und Publikum. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 2000.
Briso de Montiano, Luis. “Fernando Sor en la prensa de su época: anuncios y noticias.” Online.
———. “Una parte de la biblioteca personal de Dionisio Aguado en el legado de Rosario Huidobro.” Roseta 12 (2018): 114–64. Online.
Hartdegen, Kenneth Angus. Fernando Sor’s Theory of Harmony Applied to the Guitar: History, Bibliography and Context. PhD diss., University of Auckland, 2011.
Jeffery, Brian. Fernando Sor: Composer and Guitarist. 2nd ed. London: Tecla, 1994.
———. Fernando Sor: Composer and Guitarist. 3rd ed., Version 1.0. London: Tecla, 2020. epub.
Krummel, Donald W., ed. Guide for Dating Early Published Music. Hackensack, NJ: Joseph Boonin, 1974.
Sor, Fernando. Méthode pour la guitare. Paris 1830.
Stenstadvold, Erik. “Fernando Sor on the Move in the Early 1820s.” Soundboard Scholar, no. 1 (2015): 16–25.
———. “A Newly Discovered Letter of 1827 by Fernando Sor.” Soundboard Scholar, no. 3 (2017): 4–12.
———. “Long or Short? The Appoggiatura in the Early 19th-Century Guitar Tradition, with Special Reference to the Music of Fernando Sor.” Early Music 46, no. 1 (2018): 87–101.
Tyson, Alan. “Steps to Publication—and Beyond.” In The Beethoven Companion, edited by Denis Arnold and Nigel Fortune, 459–88. London: Faber, 1971.
Music
Fernando Sor: Op. 1–20. Facsimile Edition Reprinted from the Original Meissonier [sic] Editions. Editorial Contributions and Text by Frederick Noad. New York, NY: Shattinger, 1976.
Fernando Sor: The Complete Works for Guitar in Facsimiles of the Original Editions. Edited with notes and commentaries by Brian Jeffery. 9 volumes. London: Tecla, 1982.
Fernando Sor: The New Complete Works for Guitar Re-engraved in Eleven Volumes. Edited by Brian Jeffery. London: Tecla, 2001. Second printing, 2004.
Fernando Sor: The New Complete Works for Guitar. 2nd edn. Edited by Brian Jeffery. London:
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About the Author
Erik Stenstadvold is a guitar historian who specializes in nineteenth-century guitar music and its performance practices. His publications include the three-volume critical edition of Lhoyer’s Collected Guitar Duos (Chanterelle, 2008), the Collected Guitar Studies by Leonard Schulz (Chanterelle, 2011) and Six Exercices, op. 27, by Antoine de Lhoyer (Guitar Heritage, 2019). His articles have appeared in journals such as Notes, Soundboard, Soundboard Scholar, Classical Guitar, Early Music, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Il Fronimo, and Roseta. His Annotated Bibliography of Guitar Methods, 1760–1860 (Pendragon Press, 2010) has become a standard reference work on early guitar tutors. As a performer on period guitars, he has recorded several CDs devoted to early nineteenth-century music. He is Professor Emeritus at the Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo, and a member of the Consortium for Guitar Research at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, UK.
