Guitars Owned by Andres Segovia

These are a few guitars at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hermann Hauser made one of them. They both used to belong to Andres Segovia.

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[gmdinformation]

@Rexicano THAT is the argument of a young child--not an adult. So do indeed heed your own advice and quit pretending.

[bethany1954]

Gee, I was kind of expecting to see somebody playing the guitar.

[cesarvegamx]

@gmdinformation I don't like how Segovia played either. Robotic? That could be a cumpliment. He was even erratic and slow, even young. But... I have in my bookshelf dozens of Bach transcription by Segovia, even a whole book. Before Segovia, no one took the guitar seriously. Barrios music was regional, you can hear the Andes echoes in his playing. Segovia contributed on to classical&baroque side. That's why I insist, without him the guitar would not be a classical instrument.

[gmdinformation]

@cesarvegamx I only disagree when you say that he put the word "classical" in the guitar. As I said earlier, you had many fine guitarists around before him, some of them better including at least one woman--Ida Presti. His contemporary, Barrios, was much better in my opinion too. I don't knock his contributions to the canon of classical guitar transcriptions. But I never thought his "playing" was particularly musical. Unlike Presti & Barrios, Segovia could be quite robotic at times.

[cesarvegamx]

@gmdinformation Right, his performance were really not that good, comparing with actual guitarrists. But have you ever seen a video of Nadia Comaneci, the gymanst? Well, if you compare her performance with the level of actual gymnasts you will find out that she may not have a chance. But that doesn't demerite what she did in HER TIME.

Very simliar passes with Segovia. He put Bach in the guitar. He put the "classical" word in the guitar. You can't take that out.

[masoteld]

Segovia gave about 5000 concerts throughout his life, he influenced an entire generation of classical guitar performers, and gave orchestral classical standing to the guitar. . Anybody interested in classical guitar would do well listening to some of his recordings from younger years. (his hundreds of arrangements and transcriptions have all been published)

[MrLuwico]

What segovia had that many guitarist today don't have is poetic individuality. Most players today play very accurately, not missing any notes, and very crisp without color change and little expression.They do not captivate you with their playing like Segovia's did.

[gmdinformation]

@MikeyIV He was important; I don't disagree. He gave us many transcriptions for guitar and also commissioned some great composers to compose for the guitar. I just don't think he was as great a player as many have made him out to be. Barrios could play circles around him and was a great composer as well. I would agree with John Williams when he talks about just how great Barrios was. In my opinion he will go down in history as the greatest player and composer of 20th century classical guitar.

[MikeyIV]

@gmdinformation You can say what you want about Segovia. But the truth is he was the most IMPORTANT classical guitarist of the 20th century, whether you think he was great or not. He got the respect the guitar deserved in the classical concert setting.