Monday, June 4, 2007

Mauro Guilliani: D-Major Praeludium

This video was shot years ago by a very great friend of mine called Mazur. This piece is D-Major Praeludium by Mauro Guilliani. Guilliani was a great Italian classical guitar virtuoso. He played on violincello as well and he did his concerts couple of times on these two instruments. He was born in Bisceglie and spent his youthful years in Barletta. As we can know he studied in Napoli between 1799 and 1803. Then he started his solo guitar carrier in Vienna where he became a leader of classical guitar teaching. In 1819 he had probelms with the authorities - nobody knows why - and returned to Italy. He lived in Rome between 1820 and 1823. He lived in Napoli from 1823 and died there in 8th May, 1829.

Master Guilliani




I love this piece and played a lot on my concerts. When waves of a calm and light blue ocean are moving in different moods but always in piece. It has nice harmonies and I like to play with the dinamycs, tones when the next part comes. So its a lovely classical guitar piece in Italian romantic style, enjoy that!

You can close your eye as well since its a one-camera video but I'm satisfied with the sound. I did the sound afterwork...