Julián Arcas

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Julián Arcas.

Julián Arcas (born October 25, 1832 in María ( province of Almería ), † February 16, 1882 in Antequera ( province of Málaga ), completely Julián Gavino Arcas Lacal ) was a Spanish guitarist , composer and guitar teacher. He had a great influence on Francisco Tárrega and Antonio de Torres .

Life

Arcas received his first guitar lessons from his father with the help of Dionisio Aguado's textbook, which was widely used at the time .

Probably in 1850 Arcas met the guitar maker Antonio de Torres , who built one of his first guitars, La Leona , for him . Arcas advised Torres to make guitar making a profession and only played Torres guitars until the end of his career.

In 1852 Julián Arcas appeared in Madrid, after having started his concert career a few years earlier.

Arcas was a nationally known guitar virtuoso between 1860 and 1872 and performed in Spain and England. In 1862 the young Tárrega attended a concert in Castellón de la Plana with his father . Tárrega's father asked Arcas to have his son, who had previously received some guitar lessons from a blind musician named Manuel González, play. Arcas was so impressed that he invited the ten year old to Barcelona to train there. In 1872 Arcas withdrew from the concert business, but returned to the stage in 1874 and died in 1882 during a concert tour.

Arcas was one of the founders of the new wave of Spanish guitar music, which brought about a renaissance of the guitar in Spain after 1850, and is considered one of the founders of the classical Spanish guitar school. His way of playing the guitar achieved worldwide importance through his student Francisco Tárrega and his student.

An international guitar competition, Certamen Internacional de Guitarra Clásica "Julián Arcas" , is being held in Almería in honor of Arcas .

Works

52 compositions for guitar by Arcas have come down to us, which were published in 1993 by Melchor Rodríguez at Soneto in Madrid as a facsimile. There are 44 original compositions and 8 arrangements.

literature

  • Javier Suárez-Pajares: "Julian Arcas: Figura clave de la Guitarra Española", in: Actas del XV Congreso de la Sociedad Internacional de Musicología: Culturas musicales del Mediterraneo y sus ramificaciónes , Volume 4, (Madrid, 1992).
  • Eusebio Rioja: Julián Arcas o los albores de la guitarra flamenca (Sevilla: Bienal de Arte Flamenco, 1990), ISBN 84-86773-20-2 .
  • Eusebio Rioja: "Julián Arcas Lacal (1832-1882), concertista internacional, compositor y maestro de guitarra", in: Revista velezana No. 12 (1993), pp. 43-54.
  • Melchor Rodríguez (Ed.): Julían Arcas. Obras Completas para Guitarra / Guitar Works (Madrid: Soneto, 1993), ISBN 84-87969-38-0 .
  • Graham Wade: A Concise History of the Classic Guitar (Pacific, Missouri: Mel Bay, 2001), ISBN 078664978X .
  • Javier Suárez-Pajares, Eusebio Rioja Vázquez: El guitarrista almeriense Julián Arcas (1832-1882): una biografía documental (Almería: Instituto de Estudios Almerienses, 2003), ISBN 84-8108-273-2 .
  • Wolf Moser : Spanish guitarists between Aguado and Tárrega. In: Guitar & Laute 1, 1979, 4, pp. 26-30; here: p. 29 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf Moser : Spanish guitarists between Aguado and Tárrega. In: Guitar & Laute 1, 1979, 4, pp. 26-30; here: p. 29
  2. ↑ Wolf Moser, p. 29
  3. ^ José L. Romanillos: Antonio de Torres Guitar Maker - His Life and Work. Shaftesbury 1987, p. 14
  4. ↑ Wolf Moser, p. 29
  5. ↑ Rodríguez 1993, p. 15, Wade 2001, p. 94
  6. ^ E. Rioja: Semblanza de Julián Arcas (1832-1882)
  7. ↑ Rodríguez 1993, p. 10, Wade 2001, p. 93
  8. ^ Competition website
  9. ^ Publisher's text for the edition of Rodriguez
personal data
SURNAME Arcas, Julian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arcas Lacal, Julián Gavino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish guitarist, composer and guitar teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH María, Almería
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1882
Place of death Antequera