Selected contemporary repertoire for guitar
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This is a list of selected contemporary repertoire for guitar
. The pieces in this list were composed by notable composers (outside of the so-called "guitar world"), or composers whose work has significance in contemporary classical music
history. For more pieces and pieces of earlier eras, visit the list of compositions for guitar.
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Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
. The pieces in this list were composed by notable composers (outside of the so-called "guitar world"), or composers whose work has significance in contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms.-Categorization:...
history. For more pieces and pieces of earlier eras, visit the list of compositions for guitar.
SoloSolo (music)In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...
- Claudio AmbrosiniClaudio AmbrosiniClaudio Ambrosini is an Italian composer and conductor.-Biography:He studied foreign languages and literature at the Università di Milano graduating with an MA in 1972. Afterwards, he studied electronic music with Alvise Vidolin at the Venice Conservatory from 1972 to 1975...
Rap - Constantinos Chizaris Guitariana
- Hans Erich ApostelHans Erich ApostelHans Erich Apostel was a German-born Austrian composer of classical music....
Sechs Musiken - Milton BabbittMilton BabbittMilton Byron Babbitt was an American composer, music theorist, and teacher. He is particularly noted for his serial and electronic music.-Biography:...
Composition - Clarence BarlowClarence BarlowClarence Barlow is a composer of classical and electroacoustic works.-Biography:Barlow was born in Calcutta, a member of the anglophone minority, of British and Portuguese descent...
Until - Richard BarrettRichard Barrett (composer)Richard Barrett is a British composer.-Biography:Barrett began to study music seriously only after graduating in genetics and microbiology at University College London in 1980 . From then until 1983 he took private lessons with Peter Wiegold...
Colloid - Xavier Benguerel Versus, Cantus
- John E. Bower Preliminary Hearing (http://www.johnebower.com)
- Benjamin BrittenBenjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
Nocturnal - Luciano BerioLuciano BerioLuciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...
Sequenza XISequenza XISequenza XI for solo guitar is one of a series of Sequenzas by Luciano Berio. Written for the American guitarist Eliot Fisk, it is an innovative investigation into the dramatic and virtuosic possibilities of musical performance.-Form:... - Sylvano BussottiSylvano BussottiSylvano Bussotti is an Italian composer of contemporary music whose work is unusually notated and often creates special problems of interpretation.Born in Florence, Bussotti learned to play the violin as a child, becoming a prodigy...
Rara - Elliott CarterElliott CarterElliott Cook Carter, Jr. is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music...
Changes - Aldo ClementiAldo Clementi-Life:Aldo Clementi was born in Catania, Italy. He studied the piano, graduating in 1946. His studies in composition began in 1941, and his teachers included Alfredo Sangiorgi and Goffredo Petrassi. After receiving his diploma in 1954, he attended the Darmstadt summer courses from 1955 to 1962...
12 Variazioni, Fantasia su frammenti di M.G. - James DillonJames Dillon (composer)James Dillon, born October 29, 1950 in Glasgow, Scotland, is a Scottish composer often regarded as belonging to the New Complexity school. Dillon studied art and design, linguistics, piano, acoustics, Indian rhythm, mathematics and computer music, but is self-taught in composition.Honors include...
Shrouded Mirrors - Franco DonatoniFranco DonatoniFranco Donatoni was an Italian composer.Born in Verona, he started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local Music Academy...
Algo, Åse (Algo II) - Mikael Edlund Små Fötter
- Brian FerneyhoughBrian FerneyhoughBrian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer. His music is characterized by the extensive use of complex rhythmic tuplet notation which features in all his works...
Kurze Schatten II - Carlo ForlivesiCarlo ForlivesiCarlo Forlivesi is an Italian composer, performer and researcher.Forlivesi was born in Faenza, Emilia-Romagna. He studied at Bologna Conservatory, Milan Conservatory and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia of Rome...
Diferencias sobre el Finsterling - Christopher Fox Chile
- Luca Francesconi Alborada
- Erik Förare Grande Caprice Vulgaire
- Alberto GinasteraAlberto GinasteraAlberto Evaristo Ginastera was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers.- Biography :...
Sonata for guitar, op. 47Sonata for guitar, op. 47The Sonata for guitar, op. 47 is a composition by Alberto Ginastera. This sonata was written in 1976 for the guitarist Carlos Barbosa-Lima. It's the only original composition for guitar by Ginastera.- Bibliography :... - Hans Werner HenzeHans Werner HenzeHans Werner Henze is a German composer of prodigious output best known for "his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his life"...
Drei Tentos, Royal Winter Music I and II - Hans Joachim Hespos Kitara
- Hans Holewa Fantasia e Ricercare
- Klaus K. Hübler Fantasia e Ricercare
- Karin Jeppson Invocazione
- Ernst KrenekErnst KrenekErnst Krenek was an Austrian of Czech origin and, from 1945, American composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now , a study of Johannes Ockeghem , and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music...
Suite - Hans Ulrich Lehmann ...etwas Klang von meiner, Oberfläche…
- Georges LentzGeorges LentzGeorges Lentz is a contemporary composer and sound artist, born in Luxembourg in 1965, and is that country's internationally best known composer. Since 1990, he has been living in Sydney, Australia...
Ingwe - Christer Lindwall Eclipse
- Bruno MadernaBruno MadernaBruno Maderna was an Italian conductor and composer. For the last ten years of his life he lived in Germany and eventually became a citizen of that country.-Biography:...
Y Después - Giacomo ManzoniGiacomo ManzoniGiacomo Manzoni is an Italian composer. He studied composition from 1948 in Messina with Gino Contilli, and continued his studies from 1950 to 1956 at the Conservatoire of Milan. In 1955 he obtained a doctorate in foreign languages from the Bocconi University in Milan.He wrote the music for the...
Echi - Mikos Maros Drawing, Capriccio
- Eduardo Martin Preludio, Son y Allegro
- Peter Maxwell DaviesPeter Maxwell DaviesSir Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE is an English composer and conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music.-Biography:...
Hill runes - Tristan MurailTristan MurailTristan Murail is a French composer. His father, Gérard Murail, is a poet and his mother, Marie-Thérèse Barrois, a journalist. One of his brothers, Lorris Murail, and his younger sister Elvire Murail, aka Moka, also write, and his younger sister Marie-Aude Murail is a French children's writer...
TellurTellurTellur is a classical guitar composition by Tristan Murail dedicated to Rafael Andia. It is an example of spectral music.-Bibliography:* Tellur: an analysis, by Rafael Andia, 1984. -Recordings:... - Maurice OhanaMaurice OhanaMaurice Ohana was an Anglo-French composer of Sephardic Jewish origin.Ohana was born in Casablanca, Morocco. He was a British citizen until 1976, as his father had been born in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. He originally studied architecture, but abandoned this in favour of a...
Si le jour parait....., Tiento - Goffredo PetrassiGoffredo PetrassiGoffredo Petrassi was an Italian composer of modern classical music, conductor, and teacher. He is considered one of the most influential Italian composers of the twentieth century.-Life:...
Suoni Notturni, Nunc - Roger ReynoldsRoger ReynoldsRoger Reynolds is an American composer born July 18, 1934 in Detroit, Michigan. He is a professor at the University of California at San Diego. He received an undergraduate degree in engineering physics from the University of Michigan where he later studied composition with Ross Lee Finney...
The Behaviour of Mirrors - Rolf Riehm Toccata Orpheus
- Uros Rojko Passing Away
- Fausto RomitelliFausto RomitelliFausto Romitelli was an Italian composer.-Life and career:Romitelli studied composition at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan and subsequently took part in courses at the Accademia Chigiana di Siena with Franco Donatoni and at the Scuola Civica di Milano...
TV Trash Trance - Lars Sandberg Arena
- Sven-David SandströmSven-David SandströmSven-David Sandström is a Swedish composer best known for his compositions operas, oratorios, battets, and choral works, as well as orchestral works.Sandström studied art history and musicology at Stockholm University...
Away From - Giacinto ScelsiGiacinto ScelsiGiacinto Scelsi , Count of Ayala Valva was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French....
Ko-Tha - Stefano Scodanibbio Dos Abismos
- Humphrey SearleHumphrey SearleHumphrey Searle was a British composer.-Biography:He was born in Oxford where he was a classics scholar before studying — somewhat hesitantly — with John Ireland at the Royal College of Music in London, after which he went to Vienna on a six month scholarship to become a private pupil of Anton...
Five - Cornelius Schwer Sub-version
- Gerhard StäblerGerhard StäblerGerhard Stäbler is a German contemporary composer.In 1968 he enrolled in the composition program at the Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie in Detmold and continued his education at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, where he studied with Nicolaus A. Huber and Gerd Zacher...
..Schloss die Augen, vor Glück…. - Harri Noun Suilamo - fretwork circle
- Bent SørensenBent SørensenBent Sørensen is a Danish composer.Sørensen studied composition with Ib Nørholm at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and with Per Nørgård at the Jutland Music Academy....
Angelùs Waltz, Shadow Siciliano - Toru TakemitsuToru Takemitsuwas a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu possessed consummate skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre...
Folios, Equinox, In the Woods - Giorgio Tedde Tap
- Michael TippettMichael TippettSir Michael Kemp Tippett OM CH CBE was an English composer.In his long career he produced a large body of work, including five operas, three large-scale choral works, four symphonies, five string quartets, four piano sonatas, concertos and concertante works, song cycles and incidental music...
The Blue Guitar - Fabio VacchiFabio VacchiFabio Vacchi is an Italian composer born in 1949 in Bologna.-Training and debut:Fabio Vacchi studied at the G.B. Martini Conservatory of Bologna with Giacomo Manzoni and Tito Gotti. In 1974 he participated in the courses of the Tanglewood Festival in the USA, where he was awarded the Koussevitzky...
Plynn - William WaltonWilliam WaltonSir William Turner Walton OM was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera...
Five Bagatelles - Michael Whiticker Tulku
- Heitor Villa-LobosHeitor Villa-LobosHeitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...
12 Etudes
Works with tape
- Mauro Bagella Söder Mälarstrand 61
- Fabio Cifariello CiardiFabio Cifariello CiardiFabio Cifariello Ciardi is an Italian composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music.He studied composition, electronic music and musicology at Rome Conservatory of Music and Bologna University. He studied with Tristan Murail, Philippe Manoury , Franco Donatoni...
Scaenae Intimae - Hans-Ola EricssonHans-Ola EricssonHans-Ola Ericsson is a Swedish organist and composer.-Career:Ericsson studied church music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and continued his organ and composition studies at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Germany. He also studied privately with Luigi Nono and Olivier Messiaen...
Melody to the memory... - Dror FeilerDror FeilerDror Elimelech Feiler is a Swedish-Israeli musician, artist and leftist activist. He has been living in Stockholm, Sweden since 1973. He is married to the artist Gunilla Sköld-Feiler...
Herkos Odonton - Giuseppe Giuliani Erinnerung
- Georg KatzerGeorg KatzerGeorg Katzer is a German composer. He was one of the pioneers of electronic new music in the German Democratic Republic .-Biography:...
Dialogue Immaginaire - Josh Levine Downstream
- Tod MachoverTod MachoverTod Machover , is a composer and an innovator in the application of technology in music. He is the son of Wilma Machover, a pianist and Carl Machover, a computer scientist....
Deplacements - Diego Minchiacchi Ritual for the new morning
- Jon Christopher Nelson Wawes of refraction
- Steve ReichSteve ReichStephen Michael "Steve" Reich is an American composer who together with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass is a pioneering composer of minimal music...
Electric CounterpointElectric CounterpointElectric Counterpoint is a minimalist composition written by American composer Steve Reich. The piece consists of three movements, "Fast", "Slow", and "Fast"... - Bo Rydberg Self/Model
- Giorgio Tedde Tap
- Michael Whittaker In Prison Air
- Tommy Zwedberg Gir,
ConcertoConcertoA concerto is a musical work usually composed in three parts or movements, in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra.The etymology is uncertain, but the word seems to have originated from the conjunction of the two Latin words...
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- Malcolm ArnoldMalcolm ArnoldSir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE was an English composer and symphonist.Malcolm Arnold began his career playing trumpet professionally, but by age thirty his life was devoted to composition. He was ranked with Benjamin Britten as one of the most sought-after composers in Britain...
Serenade for guitar and strings - Richard BarrettRichard Barrett (composer)Richard Barrett is a British composer.-Biography:Barrett began to study music seriously only after graduating in genetics and microbiology at University College London in 1980 . From then until 1983 he took private lessons with Peter Wiegold...
Colloid - E for guitar and ensemble - Xavier Bengeruel Tempo for guitar and strings
- Luciano BerioLuciano BerioLuciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...
Chemins V for guitar and orchestra - Leo BrouwerLeo BrouwerJuan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida is a Cuban composer, conductor and guitarist. He is the grandson of Cuban composer Ernestina Lecuona Casado.-Biography:...
Tres Danzas concertantes for guitar and strings - Alvaro Carlevaro Eco Errante for guitar and ensemble
- Aldo ClementiAldo Clementi-Life:Aldo Clementi was born in Catania, Italy. He studied the piano, graduating in 1946. His studies in composition began in 1941, and his teachers included Alfredo Sangiorgi and Goffredo Petrassi. After receiving his diploma in 1954, he attended the Darmstadt summer courses from 1955 to 1962...
Serenade* for guitar and ensemble - Paul Davies Genji's visit to Utsusemi* for guitar and ensemble
- Franco DonatoniFranco DonatoniFranco Donatoni was an Italian composer.Born in Verona, he started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local Music Academy...
Algo III for guitar and chamberorch, Algo IV* for guitar and ensemble - Luca Francesconi A Fuoco* for guitar and ensemble
- Hilding HallnäsHilding HallnäsHilding Hallnäs was a Swedish composer. Hallnäs was married to the actress Gun Holmquist.-Life and career:Hallnäs's father had been a tenor and sang in choirs...
Concerto for guitar and strings - Hans Holewa Concertino for guitar and ensemble
- Jan W Morthenson Sonora for guitar and stringorchestra
- Jan NovákJan NovákJan Novák was a popular Czech composer of classical music. Novák was primarily active in the 1960s and composed the music for several films of Karel Kachyňa...
Concentus Euridicae for guitar and strings - Maurice OhanaMaurice OhanaMaurice Ohana was an Anglo-French composer of Sephardic Jewish origin.Ohana was born in Casablanca, Morocco. He was a British citizen until 1976, as his father had been born in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. He originally studied architecture, but abandoned this in favour of a...
Tres Graficos for guitar and orchestra - Maurizio PisatiMaurizio PisatiMaurizio Pisati - is an Italian composer.Born 1959 in Milan, he composes and performs his own works with his ZONE group [ZONE]. [His music] has been performed throughout both western and eastern Europe, the USA, Australia and Japan, is published by Casa-Ricordi, has been awarded prizes and selected...
Senti! for guitar and strings* - Sven-David SandströmSven-David SandströmSven-David Sandström is a Swedish composer best known for his compositions operas, oratorios, battets, and choral works, as well as orchestral works.Sandström studied art history and musicology at Stockholm University...
Lonesome for guitar and orchestra - Toru TakemitsuToru Takemitsuwas a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu possessed consummate skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre...
To the edge of dream for guitar and orchestra - Constantinos Chizaris Concerto N.1 "Homage to H.Villa-Lobos" for guitar and full orchestra
- Fabio VacchiFabio VacchiFabio Vacchi is an Italian composer born in 1949 in Bologna.-Training and debut:Fabio Vacchi studied at the G.B. Martini Conservatory of Bologna with Giacomo Manzoni and Tito Gotti. In 1974 he participated in the courses of the Tanglewood Festival in the USA, where he was awarded the Koussevitzky...
Notturno concertante* for guitar and orchestra