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These are utterly fantastic, thank you for sharing!
La Maja just so happens to have inspired another piece of music hugely important to the guitar repertoire. La Maja de Goya was written by Enrique Granados, who was a huge fan of Goya's work. It was originally written for voice and piano, but the guitar arrangement has probably eclipsed the original in popularity.
Here is the piano:
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And the guitar:
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Thanks again for the lovely art!
El Sueno de la Razon
El Sueno de la Razon Produce Monstruo s (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters) may be familiar to some of you. It is one of the more famous of Francisco de Goya's 80 satirical engravings of Los Caprichos. I bring it up partly because it is a striking wor...
I'm glad you enjoyed!
Works for solo guitar like this one are quite unknown relative to much of the rest of classical music, so it is very gratifying to share it with others.
That's a new one for me.
I play a bowed string instrument, but don't know much about the plucked repertoire. Thanks for broadening my (and the rest of the forum's) experience.
Fantastic post! I learned about this piece in my art history course!
I always liked how his paintings were in some way, a commentary on his society, even his more traditional paintings. Love his work, pls post more pics of any other artists you like. Here are some of my fav with some goya thrown in! Also, thanks for the ad...
These are utterly fantastic, thank you for sharing!
La Maja just so happens to have inspired another piece of music hugely important to the guitar repertoire. La Maja de Goya was written by Enrique Granados, who was a huge fan of Goya's work. It was originally written for voice and piano, but the guitar ar...
It is very beautiful but I have always been more partial to the piano as an instrument, ofc I also really like the oboe!
I have always preferred piano to a guitar (just a personal preference) and so really appreciate you sharing the piano version as it is extremely lovely! Glad you enjoyed the painting selection! Also, if you have any german opera recomendations, pls share ...
I forgot to mention, there is this youtube channel which is awesome for classical music...
it not only has a great selectin of lesser known pieces but also give the history behind them with a nice painting , here it is
