Fernando Sor and Francisco Tarrega

General Statement

Fernando Sor was a Spanish guitarist and composer. He is best known for his guitar compositions, but he also composed music for opera and ballet, earning acclaim for his ballet titled Cendrillon.

Francisco Tarrega was an influential Spanish guitarist and composer. Tárrega was born on 21 November 1852, in Villarreal, Castellón, Spain. It is said that Francisco's father played flamenco and several other music styles on his guitar

Essential Questions
1. What is Romanticism? (It has many definitions, and is many things.)
Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution.

2. How does your subject fit into the world of Romanticism (their work, their life)
Francisco Tárrega played romantic music and mixed Spanish ethnic music to his romantic music.

1. One of these guitarists had a handicap. What was it?
Francisco Tárrega had a handicap. When he was little he fell down into an Aqueduct, and he almost been blind.

2. How are their styles different?
Fernando Sor composed music for opera and ballet. Francisco Tarrega played romantic music, ethnic music, and classical music.

3. Is the music of Sor related to another time period? Which one?
He was born when classical music was famous, but he was still alive when there was romantic music too.