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38 pieces 54 pages $79.95.

   This newest edition from La Guitarreria Fina (FFSI), is a manuscript hand written by Jose Ferrer Esteve, Pujadas y Villar in the 1860s or 1870's. It is the most extensive restoration undertaken by me to complete. This involved 140-150 hours of cleaning the 2nd page bleed onto the 1st page. (Guillermo Gomez Vol. 1 published in 1993, took 35 hours.) The photos below will show how much distraction had to be removed.

About the history of the manuscript notebook:

   This Catalan notebook of manuscripts is mentioned on three pages in Domingo Prat's "Diccionario de Guitarristas", published in 1934 by Romero & Fernandez in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the entry of José Augustino on page 17, there is the mention of a composition by José dedicated to Jovita Feliu. On page 42 in the entries of Buenaventura & Narciso Bassols it is cited. On page 123 in the entry of Jovita Feliu, to whom the José Augustino composition was dedicated. The manuscript was in the possession of José Ferrer Esteve de Pujadas, who was born on March 13, 1835 in Torroella de Montgri. When he died on March 7, 1916, his archive was ceded to his friend Professor Domingo Bonet. In 1930, when Domingo was in poor health, Prof. Bonet's daughter (Magda) contacted Domingo Prat, who was in Spain at that time with his family. Prat bought the archive of Domingo Bonet, which contained the Ferrer archive. Domingo Bonet died on April 22, 1931, at the age of 90.

   After Prat's death on November 22, 1943, his widow, Carmén Farré de Prat, dispersed the Prat archive into the hands of several of his students, whom she could trust. The archive was not given, but dispersed for the students to hold onto, due to lack of space. Carmén, Blanca & Azucena Prat moved from the small home in Haedo, Argentina into a even smaller apartment in Buenos Aires Federal Capital.

   The cover of this manuscript carries the initials "S.N.C." of the Argentine musicologist, guitar historian & author Segundo N. Contreras. This manuscript notebook was acquired within a small Contreras archive of two dozen items puchased in 2000. There is no mention in the Prat Diccionario de Guitarristas as to who had written the manuscripts. The research by Josep Mangado has verified the manuscript notebook was written by José Ferrer Esteve de Pujadas.
 

~See: http://www.arrakis.es/~dedeo/04b-bassolsb.htm

This is the cover of the Jose Ferrer manuscript publication

   The photo on the left is the cleaned up version, and as one can see the photo on the right shows the inverted 1/16 bar lines with notes from page 2.

The selections are:

1) Vals compuesto por el profesor D. José Viñas, dedicado a su Maestro Don B. Bassols
Key of A Major 2 pgs. & 1 line

2) Fragmento de un coro de la opera "Il novo Mose" arreglada por Bassols
Allegro
Key of A Minor / A Major 2 pgs. of 5 lines

3) Vals compuesto por D. J. Costa
Key of A Major 2 pgs. of 6 lines

4) Aria de la opera Hernani de Maestro Verdi. arreglada para guitarra por D. Jose Agustino y dedicada a la Senorita Dona Jovita Feliu (debuted in 1844)
Andantino, Recitativo
Key of D major 4 pgs. & 2 lines ( Prat page 17 )

5) Gran Vals compuesto para guitarra por Don B. Bassols y dedicada a su amigo y discipulo Antonio Sorchs.Prestissimo 6a en Re
Key of D Minor 4 pgs. & 3 lines

6) Coro final de la opera Attila, arreglada para guitarra por B. Bassols
Key of D Minor 6a en Fa. 2 pgs. 7+ lines

7) Mazurca compuesta por B.Bassols
Key of D Major 2 pgs. 3 lines

8) Galop de D. B. Bassols
Key of G Major 1 page of 4 lines 5a en Sol, 6a en Re

9) Himno popular a Pio IX arreglada para guitarra y dedicado a Doña J. Feliu aventajada disipula de D. Buenventura Bassols ( Prat page 123 )
Marcial Key of E Major 3 pgs. & 1 line

10) Vals original de D. J. Viñas dedicado a su amigo D. Vicente Brugarolas
Intro A Minor / D Minor / G Minor 2 pgs.

11) Contradanza de Attila (debuted in 1846)
Key of A Major 4 lines

12) Vals compuesto y dedicado a su discuplo D. José Costa, por Don B. Bassols
Key of A Minor 2 pgs. of 5 lines

13) El Atrevido. Vals nuevo y original de Don B. Bassols dedicado a su discuplo D. Francisco Torras y Casas
Introduccion Key of A Major Vivo 4 pgs. & 1 line

14) Contradanza de Maiguin
Key of D Minor 6a en Fa 2 pgs. of 4 lines

15) Vals sobre un motivo de Maria Padilla por B. Bassols dedicado a D. Pepito Mungol
Key of D Major 2 pgs. 8 lines

16) Plegaria de Moisés
Key of A Minor 1 page & 1 line

17) Vals sobre un motivo de "Nabuco" compuesto por Don B. Bassols (debuted in 1842)
Key of a Minor 1 page & 3 lines

18) Galop de la pandereta arreglada por B. Bassols
Key of A Major 1 page of 4 lines

19) Vals original por B. Bassols
" Sonidos apagados pisando las cuerdas contra el mastil--"
Key of A Minor / A Major 1 page

20) Allegro in G Major 1 page

21) Vals de Straus. arreglado para guitarra por Bassols
Key of E Major 1 page of 5 lines

22) Marcha religiosa de Carulli.
moderato asais
Key of A Minor 2 pgs. of 5 lines

23) Vals arreglado para guitarra por José Truchet.
dulce
Key of E Major 2 pgs.

24) Vals de Sor
Key of D Major 1 page of 3 lines

25) Variaciones del Maestro Giuliani
Tema y 2 variaciones
Key of D Major 2 pgs.

26) Vals de la Blusa por B. Bassols.
5a en Sol, 6a en Re
Key of G minor 1 page of 5 lines

27) Cantabil de Sor. (Op. 42)
Key of C Major 2 pgs. of 6 lines

28) Vals compuesto por D. J. Costa
Key of D Major 6a en Re 2 pgs. of 6 lines

29) La Malagueña o' el jaleo de jerez Vals.
Key of D Major 2 pgs. of 6 lines

30) Vals de la joven Escocesa
Key of A Major 2 pgs. of 7 lines

31) Tema con Variaciones (6)
Key of A Major 4 pgs.

32) Vals de Giuliani
Key of C Major 1 page of 4 lines

33) Vals de Bassols
5a en Sol, 6a en Re
Key of G Major 2 pgs. of 6 line

34) Polka por N. Bassols
Key of A Major 2 pgs. of 6 lines

35) Vals de F. Sor
Key of A Major 2 pgs. of 4 lines

36) Las quejas amorosas Vals
Key of E Major 2 pgs. of 4 lines

37) Contradanza de Bassols
Key of E Major 1 page of 4 lines

38) Vals arreglado para guitarra por A. Bassols
Key of E Major 1 page of 6 lines

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