Eleuterio Tiscornia

Eleuterio Tiscornia Catalogo de su Archivo de Guitarra 1897-1945
94 pages, 9 photos or illustrations (Guitar Method covers)
$60.00 oversize softbound edition
(Catalog of his Guitar Archive 1897-1945).

   Most of the listings in this catalog are in two places presently, in the British Library or the Royal Academy of Music in London. But before they arrived at their present locations there was a circuitous journey. When Eleuterio Tiscornia began collecting classical guitar sheet music in 1897 he was given some Fernando Sor pieces by Dr. Martin Ruiz Moreno (1833-1919).
   A half a century later, his archive included 189 different artists with first editions from the 18th century onward.
According to guitar historian Ricardo Muñoz, in the mid 1960's the late Robert Spencer bought the collection, (along with Richard Macnutt). That which belonged to Richard Macnutt ended up in the British Library and that which belonged to Robert Spencer went to the Royal Academy of Music. As to the knowledge of the involvement of Richard Macnutt, I am indebted to my colleague, Dr. Brian Jeffery.

   Besides the listings of the sheet music pieces by author, with the publisher data, there are 5 pages of correspondence in French & Spanish of letters from Andre Verdier of Paris (Les Amis de la Guitare), Alfred Cottin's (Francisco Tarrega student) widow & Riccardo Vaccari of Bologna, Italy. In the back of the book is a section of biograpical data of the 18th & 19th century publishers. Eleuterio really knew his subject.

   One of the lesser known details is that most of the Chanterelle publications of Napoleon Coste, Dionisio Aguado, Antonio Jimenez Manjon & J.K. Mertz were made possible, because of the availability, due to the Robert Spencer aqcuisition of the Eleuterio Tiscornia Archive. It's like knowing where Leonardo Da Vinci got his paint.

   There will be a detailed biography of Eleuterio Tiscornia in the book in progress, "
Annotations for the History of the Classical Guitar in Argentina 1822-2000", by Héctor Garcia Martinez and Randy Osborne.

 

[FFSI] [Search the Site] [About us] [Order Form] [Instruments For Sale] [Books For Sale] [Queen of the Gypsies] [A Way of Life] [Paco de Lucia] [The Art of Flamenco] [Lives & Legends] [The Flamenco Guitar] [The Wind Cried] [The Flamencos of Cadiz] [La Chitarra di Liuteria] [Fernando Sor] [Eleuterio Tiscornia] [La Guitarra en Cataluña] [Tecnologia de la Guitarra] [The Guitar & Mandolin] [Philip J. Bone Manuscript] [The Rioplatense Guitar] [Data Base] [The Segovia-Ponce Letters] [Rischel & Birket-Smith] [Diccionario] [Mauro Giuliani] [Julian Bream] [Classic Guitar] [Luthiers & Guitares] [Musical Ints. at Yale] [Tarrega] [Las Guitarras tampoco] [Villa-Lobos-The Music] [Martin Guitars] [Antonio de Torres] [A Collection of Fine] [The Classical Guitar] [Things about the Guitar] [The Segovia Technique] [The Spanish Guitar] [Manuel Ponce] [The Development] [The Guitar From] [Distant Sarabandes] [A New Look at Segovia] [My 50 Fretting Years] [Sophocles Papas] [The Classical Guitar 5th Edition] [Six Silver Moonbeams] [Seis Rayos de Plata] [The Art of Practicing] [Segovia as I knew him] [Guitarmaking] [Classical Guitar Interviews] [A Concise History] [The Vihuela de Mano and The Spanish Guitar] [Classical Guitar Answer Book] [Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco] [Books: One Only] [Flamenco...All You Wanted to Know] [Estudios Sobre Fernando Sor] [Tarrega Biografia Oficial] [Abel Fleury El Poeta de la Guitarra] [On Competitions] [Art and Craft of Classical Guitars] [Art of Classical Guitar Playing] [Ricardo Iznaola On Practicing] [Anton Diabelli's Guitar Works] [The Guitar] [Flamenco Music Theory] [Ida Presti Her Art] [Guitarist's Guide to Fingernails] [Golden Era CDs For Sale] [CDs For Sale] [Music Sheets (A-B) For Sale] [Sheet Music Books] [Querico Publications] [Videos For Sale] [DVDs For Sale] [Golden Era DVD Collection] [Golden Era Videos For Sale] [Los Maestros] [Annotations Book] [Americana For Sale] [Accessories For Sale] [Services 2003] [Links 2003] [How & Why of Languages]