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Born in Vercelli, Italy, Angelo Gilardino began a career as a concert guitarist before transitioning to composition, teaching, and research. From 1967 to 1980, he served as the artistic director of the prestigious Edizioni Musicali Bèrben, where he curated the Rariora Musicali and contemporary guitar music series. Through this role, he rescued lost masterpieces and commissioned hundreds of new works from non-guitarist composers, drastically expanding the instrument's serious repertoire.
) during the initial reading phase and stick to them strictly to build reliable muscle memory.
If you download a ( Omaggio a Stravinsky ), you are not learning to play chords; you are learning to voice clusters that sound "wrong" until you find the precise right-hand angle. This trains the ear to find beauty in tension.
: They are designed to push the technical limits of the performer while maintaining a varied musical language that can be organized into sets for concert performance. This is Classical Guitar 2. 20 Studi Facili (Easy Studies)
Angelo Gilardino (1941–2021) stands as one of the most influential figures in the history of the modern classical guitar. As a composer, musicologist, teacher, and long-time artistic director of the Andrés Segovia Foundation, Gilardino fundamentally reshaped the repertoire of the instrument.
). He frequently employs rapid, non-conventional string-crossing patterns, complex polyrhythms (such as triplets against sixteenth notes), and precise control over tirando (free stroke) and apoyando (rest stroke) combinations.
A highly specialized set of exercises designed to eliminate mechanical noise and improve accuracy when shifting across the fretboard.
Historical guitar studies (such as those by Sor, Giuliani, or Carcassi) generally isolate specific mechanical movements: arpeggios, scales, or slurs. Gilardino’s studies assume the guitarist has already mastered these foundational skills. His work introduces "transcendental" technique, which demands:
Angelo Gilardino was not only a prolific composer but also a scholar who recovered lost works for the Andrés Segovia Archive . His pedagogical philosophy moved away from rote exercise, viewing virtuosity not as an end, but as a "starting point" for musical expression. II. The Core Corpus: Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza
