Are you a fan of the wonderful Spanish composer Fernando Sor (1778-1839), who François-Joseph Fétis dubbed “the Beethoven of the guitar”? Browse our sheet music and scores, and discover the wide world of the composer who first brought the guitar to Europe’s concert halls with Stretta Music today!
Fernando Sor was born into a military family, but any thoughts of a military career were swiftly extinguished when his father introduced him to Italian Opera. It was also his father who introduced him to the guitar, an instrument that at the time, was only really played at home, in bars and in canteens. He studied harmony and counterpoint, but since it was not yet taught academically, Sor had to teach himself to play the guitar.
Unfortunately, Sor did not fit in well in the musical circles of Charles IV’s court, but luckily he was accepted into the artistic circle of the 13th Duchess of Alba, where he met and worked with musicians like Dionisio Aguado . During the French invasion, in line with the oath of allegiance he swore to Napoleon I in 1810, Sor composed mainly nationalist music, and in 1813, when the French were expelled from Spain, he was sent into exile.
His first stop was Paris, where Fernando Sor’s works were published in the “Journal de Musique Étrangère pour la Guitare ou Lyre”, the “Journal of Foreign Music for Guitar or Lyre”, which made him very popular. Despite his popularity, he was not offered a position as composer for the band of the King of France’s Court, so he moved to London, where he had many more musical opportunities, and quickly distinguished himself as a singing teacher, and composer of Italian Arias and Ballet.
After a stay in Russia, Sor returned permanently to Paris in 1826, where he continued to compose and wrote his Método de guitarra española, his “Method of the Spanish Guitar”. He died in Paris in 1839 and is buried in Montmartre Cemetery.
He is best known for the Fernando Sor Guitar Works, and out of his friendship and collaboration with Dionisio Aguado came the wonderful work for two guitars Les Deux Amis, “The Two Friends”, in which the two guitar parts are written as “Sor” and “Aguado”.
Fernando Sor wrote in the classic style, very much influenced by the French “style galant”. He used many “suspensions” in his music, similar to those of Haydn and Mozart. Today however, Sor’s works are generally performed in a more romantic style. Alongside his guitar works, his ballets, choral music and orchestral works are particularly popular.
Sudien und Übungen
for: Guitar
Score
Item no.: 257418
New Critical Edition
Op. 50-52, 54, 56-59
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1025072
New critical Edition
17 Guitar Solos without Opus Numbers
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1019056
for: Ukulele
Music score
Item no.: 1008011
Italian Duets and The Three Canons
in Two Books
Softcover
for: Voice, piano
2 music scores
Item no.: 1667895
for: Guitar Orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1008457
for: 2 guitars
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1618797
Klassik
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 271830
Edited by Bruno Giuffredi and Andrea Dieci
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 145619
Hardcover
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1019197
Sammlung leichter Gitarrensoli
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 112118
Introduction et Variations sur un Thême de Mozart
Biblioteca de la Guitarra
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 148847
Klassik
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 238683
for: Classical guitar
Score
Item no.: 253365
for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 129507
for: Classical guitar
Item no.: 367258
for: 3 guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 347899
aus Mozarts Zauberflöte
for: Guitar
Item no.: 355216
Gitarren Archiv
for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 393841
for: Guitar
Item no.: 393836
New Critical Edition
Op. 38, 39, 44bis, 49, 53, 55, 61
Bolero a Duo
for: 2 guitars
Music score
Item no.: 1025071
Klassik
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 324297
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 390123
op. 36
for: für Gitarre
Item no.: 608417
Sudien und Übungen
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1540470
for: Classical guitar
Item no.: 158616
for: Classical
Score
Item no.: 254773
Obertura del Ballet
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 561892
for: 2 zithers
Item no.: 228329
for: Guitar
Score
Item no.: 253844
Gitarren Archiv
for: Classical guitar
Single part(n)
Item no.: 393633
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 463574
A favorite Ballett in 3 Acts
for: Piano
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1019202
16 newly discovered songs - paperbound
for: 2–3 voices, guitar [piano]
Songbook
Item no.: 1019067
op. 2/3
for: für Gitarre
Item no.: 113115
"Ye Banks and Braes"op. 40
for: Guitar
Item no.: 113369
aus der Sonateaus op.25
for: für Gitarre
Item no.: 113188
for guitar
Editiones Classicae
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 177448
Per Chitarra
for: Guitar [lute]
Music score
Item no.: 260212
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 253236
Mit Begleitung einer 2. Gitarre ad lib.
for: Guitar
Item no.: 108978
for: Guitar or Lute
Score
Item no.: 412600
for: 4 guitars (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 348503
On a theme from Mozart´s Magic Flute
Urtext
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 601525
Newly engraved from early editions
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 190954
op. 4, 7, 10 und 12
for: Guitar
Item no.: 382314
Alfred Classical Guitar Masterworks
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 636005
© 2004–2024 by Stretta Music. Order and buy sheet music online.
Your specialist for all kinds of sheet music. Online shop, sheet music, music scores and play along for download, books, music stands, music stand lights, accessories.
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Netherlands
Belgium
France
Luxembourg
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Denmark
Finland
Sweden
Poland
Czech Republic
Worldwide
