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.
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1019336
New critical Edition
17 Guitar Solos without Opus Numbers
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1019056
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Study score
Item no.: 1019206
for: Classical guitar
Single edition
Item no.: 1019196
Volume 1
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1019215
Variationen op. 9 über ein Thema von W. A. Mozart
Eine Sammlung aus dem Repertoire von Siegflied Behrend
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1019112
New Critical edition
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1019060
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
A La Morte De S.M. L'Empereur Alexandre
for: Piano
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1019219
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1019153
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1019061
New Critical edition in 14 volumes
Thematic Index to the Edition
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1019053
for: Classical guitar
Study score
Item no.: 1019210
Ausgewählte Etüden, Heft 3
Musik für die Gitarre
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1019132
Transcribed, In The Style Of Fernando Sor, By Mark Delpriora
for: Guitar
Study score
Item no.: 1019208
Collected Works 13 & 14
All Sor´s guitar duos with the original fingering
Pocket Score Edition
for: 2 guitars
Study score
Item no.: 1019055
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1018986
for: 2 mandolins, mandola [cello], guitar
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1019021
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1019020
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1019022
n. 1-10
ad uso dei Conservatori
for: Guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 776488
n. 11-20
ad uso dei Conservatori
for: Guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 776317
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 774981
for: Classical guitar
Single edition
Item no.: 770718
for guitar or lyre-guitar
for: 1–2 guitars
Music score
Item no.: 769970
op.6 & op.29
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 768379
En 25 lecciones progresivas
for: Classical guitar
Music lesson book (anthology)
Item no.: 766924
for: Guitar
Music lesson book
Item no.: 766572
par differents auteurs arrangé pour deux guitares
for: 2 classical guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 694210
for: 2 classical guitars
Ensemble score, solo parts
Item no.: 694206
for: 2 classical guitars
Ensemble score, solo parts
Item no.: 694227
6 Bagatelles op. 43
for: Classical guitar
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 689503
for: Ukulele
Music score
Item no.: 1008011
from: Petites pièces progressives op. 44
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 759538
from: Introduction a l´étude de la guitare, op. 60
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 759534
from: 24 Exercises trés faciles op. 35 (No. 2)
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 759540
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1008283
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 725189
per due chitarre
for: 2 guitars
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 832559
60 Cartoons rund um die Akustik-Gitarre Band 2
Band 2
Book
Item no.: 644438
from: F. Sor, Introduction à l’étude de la guitare op. 60
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 722207
from: F. Sor, Méthode pour la guitare
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 722191
for: Guitar
Score
Item no.: 390821
Newly engraved from early editions
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 190954
op. 12
for: Guitar
Item no.: 602636
from the Hudleston Manuscripts
for: Voice, guitar
Ensemble score
Item no.: 564989
op. 31/23
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 727143
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