Fandanguillo - Andres Segovia

The "father of modern classical guitar", Andres Segovia was born in 1893 in Linares, Spain. He started playing guitar at 6 years old (some sources say 4, when he'd play an imaginary guitar on his lap). He had his first public performance at age 16 and his first professional concert at age 21. He despised flamenco music, preferring the Spanish romantic and nationalist music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and felt compelled to rescue the guitar from "the hands of the flamenco gypsies." Andres Segovia died in Madrid, Spain in 1987 at the age of 94.

Fandanguillo performed by Andres Segovia



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