, 1940) is an Italian classical guitar

Classical guitar

The classical guitar is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones...

ist, author of many musical publications.His musical education takes place at the Conservatory of Rome and Naples , under the guidance of Mario Gangi , which subsequently will be teaching colleague for many years at Santa Cecilia

Santa Cecilia

Santa Cecilia is a municipality located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 118 inhabitants....

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Transcriptions and revisions

Here are listed only the main works by Carlo Carfagna.

• Integral edition in three volumes of Fernando Sor
  Fernando Sor
  Josep Ferran Sorts i Muntades was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer. While he is best known for his guitar compositions, he also composed music for a wide range of genres, including opera, orchestra, string quartet, piano, voice and ballet...
  
  's Studies for guitar.
• Integral edition in three volumes of Francisco Tárrega
  Francisco Tárrega
  Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea was an influential Spanish composer and guitarist of the Romantic period.-Biography:Tárrega was born on 21 November 1852, in Vila-real, Castelló, Spain...
  
  's works.
• Revision of the four lute suites by Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
  
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• Revision of the four sonata
  Sonata
  Sonata , in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata , a piece sung. The term, being vague, naturally evolved through the history of music, designating a variety of forms prior to the Classical era...
  
  s by Sor
  Fernando Sor
  Josep Ferran Sorts i Muntades was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer. While he is best known for his guitar compositions, he also composed music for a wide range of genres, including opera, orchestra, string quartet, piano, voice and ballet...
  
  

He published with the following firms: Bèrben (Ancona), Ricordi

Casa Ricordi

Casa Ricordi is a classical music publishing company founded in 1808 as G. Ricordi & Co. by violinist Giovanni Ricordi in Milan, Italy...

 (Milan), Music Inc. (Dallas), Nicolai

Nicolai

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 (Rome), Domani Musica (Rome), Erom (Rome).

Essays

• Profilo storico della chitarra, (with Alberto Caprani), Bèrben, Ancona, 1966
• Dizionario Chitarristico Italiano (with Mario Gangi), Bèrben, Ancona, 1968
• Liuteria Classica Italiana, chitarre del XIX e XX secolo (with Giovanni Antonioni), Camerata Musicale Barese, 1985
• Chitarra - Storia e Immagini (with Michele Greci), Fratelli Palombi Editori, Roma, 2000
• Il libretto per musica e Metastasio, Erom, Rome, 2005
• Aspetti della Chitarra nell'Ottocento, Erom, Rome, 2006
• He has written together with Mario Gangi the article Guitar in the Musical Encyclopedia edited by Fratelli Fabbri Editori
  Fratelli fabbri editori
  Fratelli Fabbri Editori is an Italian publishing house founded in 1947 by the brothers Giovanni, Dino and Ettore 'Rino' Fabbri. Today Fabbri forms part of RCS Libri, which in turn is 100% controlled by RCS MediaGroup.-Origins:...
  
  
• He has written many essays on guitar-specific newspapers (even small treatises on History of art)
• He has cowritten with Gian Paolo Chiti
  Gian Paolo Chiti
  Gian Paolo Chiti is an Italian composer and pianist.After beginning his studies in piano, violin and composition at the age of four, he made a series of appearances as a child prodigy before entering the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy's most important music school, at the age...
  
  a little multimedia opera, Matrona quaedam.