Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Escarramán, for Guitar (1955)

Classical Music Discord: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco ( 1895 - 1968 ) Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (3 April 1895 – 16 March 1968) was an Italian composer, pianist and writer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one hundred compositions for that instrument. In 1939 he immigrated to the United States and became a film composer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for some 200 Hollywood movies for the next fifteen years. He also wrote concertos for Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky. Escarramán, for Guitar ( 1955 ) “Escarramán“, A Suite of Spanish Dances from the XVIth Century (after Cervantes), Op. 177, is along neglected masterpiece in the guitar repertory. Like many of the composer’s efforts, it contained passages in its unedited form (Castelnuovo-Tedesco was not a guitarist) which were literally impossible to perform. Escarramán was one of those colourful but disreputable characters to be foun