1969 Guitar Review article: Ida Presti - by Andres Segovia

Cover: Ida Presti - George Giusti

Articles: Ida Presti by Andres Segovia; Presti in New York; Ida Presti by Henri Dorigny; Ida Presti - In Memoriam - The Athenian Guitar Duo; An Historical Perspective of the Guitar Duo; Rationale of the Guitar-Duo Form - John W. Duarte; The Future of the Guitar Duo - John W. Duarte; Music: Fuga Elegiaca - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Sans Cesse - John W. Duarte, Epitaph of Seikilos - Bart Jordan; more

1969 May Guitar Review #31 Classical Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com





Vintage 1969 Ad: Andres Segovia, Segovia Espana, Decca Record Album



Ida Presti at La Salle Pleyel, Paris, 28 April 1935, Bobri

1968 Society of the Classic Guitar - a new look at the history of the Classic Guitar

Cover: Dotar Player - V. Bobri

Contents: A Message to Readers - Andres Segovia; A New look at the history of the Classic Guitar; A Gallery of Great Guitars - from the XVI to the XX Century; more

1968 August Guitar Review #30 Classical Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com





Persian dotar pictured on a ceramic plate from Nishapur, Khurassan, Iran, 10th century A.D. Two large tuning pegs and two strings are visible, with the characteristic incurved body. An instrument of ancient lineage in the Transcaucasus and Persia.



Left: Vihuela, c. 1500, Spain; Right: Guitar, five courses, late 16 C., Venice.

1969 Guitar Review - A Salute to Andres Segovia - Florida State University, Tallahassee

Cover: Gaspar Sanz Abecedario - Antonio Petruccelli

Contents: A Salute to Segovia - Florida State University, Tallahassee; Acceptance Speech - Andres Segovia; Three Spagnolettas from The Bentivoglio Manuscript - Roy Petschauer; Guitar Instruction by Television - Frederick Noad; The Guitar - Emanuel Winternitz; A Gallery of Great Guitars part 2 - the XVII Century; The Fragrant Psyche of the Guitar; Music: Spagnoletta in Soprano, Spagnoletta in Basso, Spagnoletto - from The Bentivoglio; Espanoletas - Gaspar Sanz, The Old Spagnoletta - Giles Farnaby; more

1969 Fall Guitar Review #32 Classical Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com





Vintage 1969 Ad for The Unique Art of Andres Segovia Decca Record Album



Madame Davis, mezzoint by R. Thomson from a portrait by P. Lely. Mary Davis, actress, singer and dancer was a member of Sir William D'Avenant's company, well known in London around 1660...



Andres Segovia, February 27, 1969



Left to Right: Six-Stringed guitar by Andreas Ott, 1650, Prague; Chitarra battente, five courses, by Andreas Ott, 1659, Prague; Chitarra battente by Andreas Ott, late 17 C., Prague; Chitarra battente, six strings, by Andrea Ott, late 17 C., Prague

L'Accord Partait en Amour: Incidental Notes to the Graphic Music of Balzac's Paris

Contents: L'Accord Partait en Amour: Incidental Notes to the Graphic Music of Balzac's Paris; A Portfolio of 19th Century Lithographs and Wood Engravings from F.V. Grunfeld's collection; Music: Je Pense A Lui - Pauline Duchambge, arr. F. Carulli; Gais Matelots, Pauline Duchambge, arr. M. Carcassi; Theme Varie, Antonio Nava; Le Matin d'Une Soiree, Charles Plantade, arr. Meissonnier "le Jeune"; Je Ne Veux Plus Aimer, G.P.A. Gatayes; more

1978 Summer Guitar Review #44 Classical Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com





The anonymous artist of this eary nineteenth century print has emphasized the parallelism of related forms - Empire decollete and pear-shaped guitar.



Left: La Musicienne is a Spanish maja, the subject of literary studies by Gautier, Merimee and Dumas, and of brilliant pictorial reportage by Constantin Guys. The inlay work on her Spanish guitar seems a trifle overdone, even for a pre-Torres model. Right: Cecile, of 1843, is the work of Eduard Clemens Fechner, a Silesian artist (1799-1861) who settled in Paris in 1825. The French caption on the original print is translated: "Alas, where is the melody that can express the song of my heart?" It is doubtful whether she will find it on this guitar, with the frets on the wrong side.



Left: Published by Lemercier in the late 1830s, this popular French lithograph is signed "A. Gigoux," though in fact it is merely a sentimentalized copy of Sir Thomas Lawrence's famous portrait of Elizabeth, Lady Wallscourt. Right: Title page of a Methode de Guitare by Charles de Marescot, a Parisian teacher and composer best known for an album of teaching pieces entitled La Guitaromanie. The central figure is surrounded by English, French, Italian and Spanish "troubadours."

A Gallery of Great Guitars

Cover: Harlequin jaloux by Watteau. Engraving by Chedel

Contents: The Gentle Guitars of Jean Antoine Watteau; A Gallery of Great Guitars part three - the XVIII Century - V. Bobri, G. d'Alessio, M. Nelson, F.C. Hess; Music: Les Regrets de l'absence; more

1971 Summer Guitar Review #35 Classical Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com





Left: Mezzetin Playing Guitar, engraving by Thomassin, fils, from a painting by Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Right: Guitar, six strings, by Montron, 1785, France.



Left: Guitar, five courses, with unstopped extra treble strings, by Rafael Vallejo, 1792, Granada. Right: Detail from Marguerite Gerard's painting The Model. The Hermitage, Leningrad.

1966 American Artist Magazine Cover: "The Guitarist" Etching by Edouard Manet, 1860

Cover: The Guitarist by Edouard Manet; Contents: Ralph Mayer Technical Page; The Russell Gallery in Great Falls; The two worlds of Naoko Matsubara; Robert N. Blair believes in action; The powerful art of Franz Rederer; Henry Gasser Paintings of Newark; The Meteoric career of Ed Emberley; more

1966 November American Artist Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

Guitar Art - Gypsies at Granada

Drawing by H. Wilson, engraved by Cooper.

This guitar art is inside the 1976 Winter Guitar Review #41 Classical Guitar Magazine Back-Issue
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Mauro Giuliani circa 1830 from a portrait by Stubenrauch

Mauro Giuliani circa 1830 from a portrait by Stubenrauch, lithographed by Fugel, and published by Artaria of Vienna.

...Whether or not Sor left Paris again is a question for which no definite answer can yet be provided. There is a possibility that Sor returned to London and engaged in a rivalry there with Mauro Giuliani. Many references attest to this famous and colorful, if questionable, "rivalry" of Sor and Giuliani. There is ample room for doubt that such an incident ever occurred...

This guitar article is inside the 1962 June Guitar Review #26 Classical Guitar Magazine Back-Issue
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Fernando Sor circa 1820 drawn by I. Goubaud

Fernando Sor, ca. 1820. Drawn by I. Goubaud. Engraved by M.N. Bate.

Probably no other figure in the history of the guitar holds so much interest for the music historian as does Fernando Sor, the legendary Catalan composer and guitarist. His compositions for the guitar maintain the interest and command the respect of guitarists to a degree unmatched by any other composer for the instrument. It is no accident that this is so, for Sor's compositions are among the major creations of guitar literature. These works, ranging in size from tiny minuets to large-scale sonatas for the instrument, represent a legacy of vast importance to guitarists...

This guitar article is inside the 1962 June Guitar Review #26 Classical Guitar Magazine Back-Issue
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Dionisio Aguado Lithograph, 1843

Dionisio Aguado. Lithograph by Aubert I Ca, from "Nuevo Metodo para Guitarra" by D. Dionisio Aguado. Published by Aguado in Madrid, 1843.

This guitar art print is inside the 1962 June Guitar Review #26 Classical Guitar Magazine Back-Issue
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An angel playing a four-course guitar.

Anonymous polychromed wood sculpture of the 15th century in the Museum of the Cathedral of Avila, Spain. Photograph by Oronoz, Madrid.

This guitar art print is inside the 1973 Summer Guitar Review #38 Magazine. Click the image to go directly to the listing.

13th Century Spanish Guitars

The guitarra morisca and the guitarra latina from the Cantigas de Santa Maria de Alfonso el Sabio.

This guitar art print is inside the 1966 June Guitar Review #29 Magazine. Click the image to go directly to the listing.

The Guitar. Painting by Sir George Hayter.

Engraved by A.H. Ritchie, New York. Collection V. Bobri.

This guitar art print is inside the 1974 Summer Guitar Review #39 Magazine. Click the image to go directly to the listing.