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Francisco Tárrega
Person · male · Spain · Villarreal · born 1852 · died 1909 · recording since 1983
Spanish composer and classical guitarist (1852-1909)
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Also known as Francesc Tàrrega · Francisco Tárrega · フランシスコ・タレガ · Fracesco Tarrego · Fracisco Tarrega · Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea · +5 more
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Debut release: Recuerdos de la Alhambra / Lágrima / Danza mora / Adelita / Pavana / Jota
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Album: Recuerdos de la Alhambra / Lágrima / Danza mora / Adelita / Pavana / Jota
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Biography
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Biography
Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea (21 November 1852 – 15 December 1909) was a Spanish composer and classical guitarist of the late Romantic period. He is known for such pieces as Capricho Árabe, Recuerdos de la Alhambra and Gran Vals.
Biography
Tárrega was born on 21 November 1852, in Villarreal, Province of Castellón, Spain. It is said that Francisco's father played flamenco and several other music styles on his guitar; when his father was away working as a watchman at the Convent of San Pascual, Francisco would take his father's guitar and attempt to make the beautiful sounds he had heard. Francisco's nickname as a child was "Quiquet".
As a child, he ran away from his nanny and fell into an irrigation channel and injured his eyes. Fearing that his son might lose his sight completely, his father moved the family to Castellón de la Plana to attend music classes because as a musician he would be able to earn a living, even if blind. Both his first music teachers, Eugeni Ruiz and Manuel González, were blind.
In 1862, concert guitarist Julián Arcas, on tour in Castellón, heard the young Tárrega play and advised Tárrega's father to allow Francisco to come to Barcelona to study with him. Tárrega's father agreed, but insisted that his son take piano lessons as well. The guitar was viewed as an instrument to accompany singers, while the piano was quite popular throughout Europe. However, Tárrega had to stop his lessons shortly after, when Arcas left for a concert tour abroad. Although Tárrega was only ten years old, he ran away and tried to start a musical career on his own by playing in coffee houses and restaurants in Barcelona. He was soon found and brought back to his father, who had to make great sacrifices to advance his son's musical education.
Three years later, in 1865, he ran away again, this time to Valencia where he joined a Romani family. His father looked for him and brought him back home once more, but he ran away a third time, again to Valencia. By his early teens, Tárrega was proficient on both the piano and the guitar. For a time, he played with other musicians at local engagements to earn money, but eventually he returned home to help his family.
Tárrega entered the Madrid Royal Conservatory in 1874, under the sponsorship of a wealthy merchant named Antonio Canesa. He had brought along with him a recently purchased guitar, made in Seville by Antonio de Torres. Its superior sonic qualities inspired him both in his playing and in his view of the instrument's compositional potential. At the conservatory, Tárrega studied composition under Emilio Arrieta who convinced him to focus on guitar and abandon the idea of a career with the piano.
By the end of the 1870s, Tárrega was teaching the guitar (Emilio Pujol, Miguel Llobet, and Daniel Fortea were pupils of his) and giving regular concerts. Tárrega received much acclaim for his playing and began traveling to other areas of Spain to perform. By this time he was composing his first works for guitar, which he played in addition to works of other composers.
During the winter of 1880, Tárrega replaced his friend Luis de Soria, in a concert in Novelda, Alicante. After the concert, an important man in town asked him to listen to his daughter, María José Rizo, who was learning to play guitar. Soon they were engaged.
In 1881, Tárrega played in the Opera Theatre in Lyon and then the Paris Odeon, in the bicentenary of the death of Pedro Calderón de la Barca. He also played in London, where he liked neither the language nor the weather. There is a story about his visit to England: after a concert, some people saw that the musician was in low spirits. "What is the matter, maestro?" they asked him. "Do you miss home? Your family, perhaps?" They advised him to capture that moment of sadness in his music. Thus he conceived the theme of one of his most memorable works, Lágrima (teardrop). After playing in London he returned to Novelda for his wedding. At Christmas 1882, Tárrega married María José Rizo.
To enlarge his guitar repertory and to make use of his considerable knowledge of keyboard music, he soon began transcribing piano works of Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn and others. Tárrega and his wife moved to Madrid, gaining their living by teaching privately and playing concerts, but after the death of an infant daughter during the winter, Maria Josefa de los Angeles Tárrega Rizo, they settled permanently in Barcelona in 1885. Among his friends in Barcelona were Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Joaquín Turina and Pau Casals.
Francisco Tárrega and María José (María Josefa) Rizo had three more children: Paquito (Francisco), Maria Rosatia (María Rosalia) (best known as Marieta) and Concepción. On a concert tour in Valencia shortly afterward, Tárrega met the wealthy Concepción Gómez de Jacoby, who became a valuable patron to him. She allowed him and his family the use of part of her house outside Barcelona. Later she took him to Granada, which later inspired the guitarist to write Recuerdos de la Alhambra, which he first dedicated to Concepción in 1899 with the title "A Granada." He later dedicated a revised published version of this piece to Alfred Cottin, the French guitarist he had met in Paris while participating in a concert on a visit accompanied and almost certainly sponsored by Gómez de Jacoby.
From the later 1880s up to 1903, Tárrega continued composing and traveling, but limited his concerts to Spain. In 1900, Tárrega visited Algiers, where he was said to have heard a repetitive rhythm played on an Arabian drum and the following morning composed Danza Mora based on that rhythm. In about 1902, he cut his fingernails and created a sound that would become typical of those guitarists later associated with his school. The following year he went on tour to Italy, performing in Rome, Naples, and Milan.
In January 1906, he was afflicted with paralysis on his right side, and though he would eventually return to performing, he never completely recovered. He finished his last work, Oremus, on 2 December 1909. He died in Barcelona thirteen days later, on 15 December, at the age of 57.
Musical style and influence
Tárrega composed music in the Romantic style of 19th-century European masters. His conservatory training and familiarity with contemporary classical genres and techniques are apparent in his compositions and transcriptions; these are more sophisticated than those of Spanish guitarist-composers of the previous generation and his contemporaries, e.g., Magín Alegre, Tomás Damas, Julián Arcas, José Viñas, and José Ferrer.
A virtuoso on his instrument, he was known as the "Sarasate of the guitar," although Tárrega preferred small intimate performances over the concert stage.
Tárrega is considered to have laid the foundations for 20th-century classical guitar and for increasing interest in the guitar as a recital instrument. One of his late students, Josefina Robledo Gallego, promoted Tárrega's style on her concert tours to South America and is credited with "becoming the main disseminator of the Tàrrega school in Brazil."
The Francisco Tárrega International Guitar Competition has been held annually since 1967 in Benicàssim, Spain, which aims to promote his works and support emerging guitar talent.
Compositions
Although only 19 original compositions were published in his lifetime, Francisco Tárrega composed approximately 80 original pieces and 120 transcriptions – mostly for his own use and that of his students. Most of his later published works were edited by others, and often altered. His favored genres were character pieces (several with Spanish, Moorish and Arabic allusions) including preludes, etudes, caprices, serenades, and dances.
He transcribed many works from the piano (he was a capable keyboard player), violin and the operatic repertory. As with several of his Spanish contemporaries, such as his friend Isaac Albéniz, he had an interest in combining the prevailing Romantic style in classical music with Spanish folk elements, and transcribed several of Albéniz's piano pieces.
He is also the composer of Gran Vals, an excerpt of which was used in the Nokia tune, the default ringtone of Nokia phones. It appears on these phones in a variety of different styles and instrumentations; for example, phones from 2002 to 2007 include piano-based renditions, while phones released during 2008 to 2010 feature a folk-inspired guitar rendition.
Violinist Ruggiero Ricci arranged Tárrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra for solo violin and often performed it as an encore.
In 2015, the Italian violist Marco Misciagna published his arrangements for solo viola of the Tango, Capricho árabe and Recuerdos de la Alhambra.
Guitars
The guitars used by Tárrega include:
Enrique Garcia, n°74 (1906) - This instrument was gifted by Tárrega to his friend Alfred Cottin, to whom he dedicated the composition Recuerdos de la Alhambra. It then became the official guitar of 'Les Amis de la Guitare', a circle of Parisian guitarists, where it was played by Django Reinhardt, among others. In 2019 Kyuhee Park recorded a video of Recuerdos de la Alhambra on this guitar. (See External Link)
Torres, FE 17 (1869) – This is the guitar that was given to 17 year old Francisco Tárrega by Torres personally after hearing him play.
Torres, SE 49 (1883)
Torres, SE 114 (1888); in the collection of Sheldon Urlik
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Discography & profile
Normalised profile
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| Metric | Value | Percentile |
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| Wikipedia language versions | 48 | 96.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 26 | 89.3th |
| Studio albums | 18 | 95.8th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 20 | 93.9th |
| Recording span (years) | -74 | 5.6th |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
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Discography (26 release groups · 18 studio albums)
Albums · 18
Recuerdos de la Alhambra / Lágrima / Danza mora / Adelita / Pavana / Jota
1983 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 41:33
1Lágrima: Andante2:072Estudio en forma de minuetto1:573La cartagenera5:204Danza mora1:545Columpio: Lento2:256Endecha: Andante0:527Oremus: Lento1:008La mariposa: Allegro vivace0:589Recuerdos de la Alhambra: Andante2:5810Preludio in G major: Allegretto1:0611Adelita: Lento1:3612Sueño4:5213Minuetto1:4714Pavana: Allegretto2:1315Estudio de velocidad: Allegro1:1616Jota: Andante - Allegro - Tempo primo - Lento, espressivo - Cantabile9:121990 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 58:10
1Capricho Árabe4:252Pavana2:203Alborada1:444Estudio Sobre Una Fuga De Bach3:345Fugue In A Minor5:026Lagrima2:027Adelita2:158Canzonetta4:489Marieta4:0610Granada - Serenada, Suite Española, Op. 47, No.14:3411Estudio Brillante2:4712Gran Vals3:0113Serenada5:0514Gran Jota12:271991 · studio album
1991 · studio album
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Tracklist · 18 tracks · 47:02
1Mazurka in G2:532Study in A1:573Marietta2:284Capricho árabe5:215Prelude in A minor1:426Recuerdos de la Alhambra3:497Serenata3:528Tango espagnol3:459Guajira4:2410Canciones populares catalanas: La nit de Nadal1:2411Canciones populares catalanas: Lo rossinyol1:0012Canciones populares catalanas: El mestre3:2213Canciones populares catalanas: La filadora1:3114Canciones populares catalanas: El testament d'Amelia2:0415Canciones populares catalanas: Cançó del lladre2:0416Canciones populares catalanas: Plany2:1417Canciones populares catalanas: El noi de la mare2:1318Canciones populares catalanas: L'hereu Riera0:591998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 39 tracks
1Leonesa2Clavelitos3El testament d'Amelia4El noy de la mare5Plany6Canço de lladre7Lo rossinyol8L'hereu Riera9La preço de Lleida10Lo fill del rei11La filla del marxant12La nit de Nadal13La filadora14El mestre15La pastoreta16Danza mora17Minueto18Preludio no. 1: La minore19Preludio no. 2: La minore20Preludio no. 3: Do maggiore21Preludio no. 4: La minore22Preludio no. 5: La maggiore23Preludio no. 6: Fa # minore24Preludio no. 7: Re maggiore25Preludio no. 8: Si minore26Preludio no. 9: Mi maggiore (Lágrima)27Preludio no. 10: Sol maggiore28Preludio no. 11: Sol maggiore29Preludio no. 12: Mi maggiore30Preludio no. 13: Mi maggiore31Preludio no. 14: La maggiore32Preludio no. 15: Re maggiore33Preludio no. 16: Mi maggiore34Preludio no. 17: La maggiore35Preludio no. 18: Re minore36Preludio no. 19: Re maggiore37Preludio no. 20: Re minore (Oremus)38Preludio no. 21: Re minore (Endecha)39Capricho árabeWhat about this, Mr. Tárrega ?
1998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 25 tracks · 1:02:18
1Sueño Mazurca (Antonio de Torres 'La Leona' 1856)1:412Mazurca en sol (Antonio de Torres 'La Leona' 1856)1:463Adelita. Mazurca (Antonio de Torres 'La Leona' 1856)1:174Marieta. Mazurca (Antonio de Torres 'La Leona' 1856)1:575Preludio No5 (Antonio de Torres 'La Leona' 1856)1:166Maria. Gavota (Antonio de Torres 'La Leona' 1856)1:407Cordoba (Manuel Ramirez 1912)6:318Tarantos (Santos Hernandez 1935)5:189Fantasia I del primero tono (Vicente Arias 1894)2:1810Fantasia II del primero tono (Vicente Arias 1894)2:1011Fantasia VIII del quarto tono (Vicente Arias 1894)2:3812Fantasia XI del segundo tono (Vicente Arias 1894)3:2113Lautensuite No1 BWV996: Allemande (Antonio Torres 1867)3:1314Lautensuite No1 BWV996: Bourree (Antonio Torres 1867)1:3715Lautensuite No1 BWV996: Gigue (Antonio Torres 1867)3:3116Verano Porteno (Ignacio Fleta 1958)5:1517Etude No11. Lent. Anime (Domingo Esteso 1931)3:3918Etude No12. Anime (Domingo Esteso 1931)2:2319Lagrima. Preludio (Vicente Arias 1894)1:3120Lagrima. Preludio (Domingo Esteso 1931)1:3121Lagrima. Preludio (Ignacio Fleta 1958)1:3322Lagrima. Preludio (Santos Hernandez 1935)1:3323Lagrima. Preludio (Antonio Torres 'La Leona' 1856)1:3424Lagrima. Preludio (Manuel Ramirez 1912)1:3525Lagrima. Preludio (Antonio Torres 1867)1:30Música española: Música para guitarra I
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 32 tracks · 2:15:26
Disc 11Romance "Jeux interdits"2:342Fantasía X2:133Minueto no. 9 en Sol mayor2:464Minueto no. 25 en Sol mayor2:205Introducción y variaciones sobre un tema de Mozart, op. 97:006Gran solo, op. 14: I. Introducción. Andante1:457Gran solo, op. 14: II. Allegro7:068Sonata en Do menor, op. 25: I. Andante largo9:059Sonata en Do menor, op. 25: II. Allegro non troppo6:5410Sonata en Do menor, op. 25: III. Andante grazioso8:2411Sonata en Do mayor, op. 15 no. 2: Allegro moderato5:37126 estudios: op. 35 no. 161:27136 estudios: op. 6 no. 61:28146 estudios: op. 35 no. 171:13156 estudios: op. 6 no. 41:34166 estudios: op. 6 no. 81:31176 estudios: op. 29 no. 231:5318Les Adieux, op. 214:58Disc 21Fantasía elegíaca: I. Andante largo2:052Fantasía elegíaca: II. Marcha fúnebre: Andante moderato14:123Recuerdos de la Alhambra4:524Estudio brillante1:4855 Preludios5:396Minuetto1:5573 Mazurcas (Adelita, Mazurca en Sol, Marieta)5:358Lágrima (preludio)2:019La alborada1:4410Introducción y fantasía sobre temas de La Traviata7:2511Serenata morisca4:5312La maja de Goya5:0013Danza española no. 5 "Andaluza"4:1314Danza española no. 10 "Melancólica"4:162000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 21 tracks · 1:05:34
1Partita in E major, BWV 1006a: Prélude3:222Partita in E major, BWV 1006a: Loure3:443Partita in E major, BWV 1006a: Gavotte en Rondeau2:314Partita in E major, BWV 1006a: Menuett I and Menuett II3:165Partita in E major, BWV 1006a: Bourrée1:286Partita in E major, BWV 1006a: Gigue1:467Sonata romántica: I. Allegro moderato5:358Sonata romántica: II. Andante espressivo4:319Sonata romántica: III. Allegretto vivo2:2310Sonata romántica: IV. Allegro non troppo e serioso5:1011Danza mora2:4912Capricho árabe4:0813Vals1:4714The Troubadours Three: Melancholy3:3515The Troubadours Three: Sonnet4:0316The Troubadours Three: Celebration3:1617Five Bagatelles: I. Allegro3:1318Five Bagatelles: II. Lento3:1019Five Bagatelles: III. Alla Cubana1:3620Five Bagatelles: IV. Sempre espressivo2:0021Five Bagatelles: V. Con slancio2:11Complete Works for Guitar; Giulio Tampalini, guitar CD 2 of 2
2002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 34 tracks · 46:37
1Preludio en re0:272Preludio en mi0:403Preludio en la menor0:254Preludio en sol0:445Preludio en mi1:286Preludio en re0:207Preludio en sol0:378Preludio en la menor1:389Preludio en mi (Lágrima)1:3610Preludio en re menor1:2011Preludio en la0:4512Preludio en la0:4313Preludio en si menor0:5914Preludio en mi0:4615Preludio en fa# menor0:3416Preludio en re0:3217Preludio en re menor (Oremus)0:5218Preludio en re menor (Endecha)0:5319Preludio en la0:5120Preludio en do0:4921Preludio en mi menor0:3022Preludio en la0:2323Preludio en la menor0:2524Preludio en la0:2325Preludio en la menor(da Robert Schummann: Presto Op 99 n. 2)1:0426Estudio en forma de Minuetto1:5727Estudio sobre un tema de Damas1:4128Sueno (trémolo)6:2129Estudio en Sol2:1730Estudio sobre una sonatina de Prudend3:2531Estudio de velocidad1:3032Mazurka sobre un tema anónimo espanol0:5233F. Mendelsohn (transcr. Tárrega) Barcarola veneciana Op.19 n.62:2534Fantasía sobre la Traviatta de Verdi6:252002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 29 tracks · 1:12:15
1Pavana1:482María (gavota)1:343Capricho árabe5:414Adelita (mazurka)1:475Lágrima (preludio)1:526Pepita (polka)1:587Vals (en re)2:148Recuerdos de la Alhambra5:529Alborada2:1310El columpio3:0011Tango3:5112Endecha (preludio)1:0313Sueño (mazurka)2:2214Gran jota9:4815Estudio en mi menor1:2616Estudio en re mayor0:3617Estudio de campanelas0:4718Estudio en re mayor0:4019Estudio en re mayor0:3020Estudio en la menor0:3721Estudio en mi mayor0:5422Fantasia sobre motivos de "La traviata" (Ee verdi)7:0523Marieta (mazurka)2:2924Rosita (polka)1:5825Danza mora2:1326Mazurka (en sol)2:2627Preludio en mi mayor1:4528Gran vals2:5329Oremus (preludio)0:532009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 32 tracks · 1:01:44
1Prelude no. 1 in D minor1:292Prelude no. 2 in A minor1:513Prelude no. 3 in G0:454Prelude no. 4 in E0:485Prelude no. 5 in E1:506Prelude no. 6 in B minor1:047Prelude no. 7 in A0:488Prelude no. 8 in F sharp minor0:469Prelude no. 9 in B minor "On a Theme of Mendelssohn"1:0510Prelude no. 10 in B minor0:3211Prelude no. 11 in E "Lágrima"2:0112Prelude no. 12 in A minor0:2513Prelude no. 13 in G1:0414Prelude no. 14 in D0:2915Prelude no. 15 in D minor "Endecha"1:1216Prelude no. 16 in D minor "Oremus" (Robert Schumann)0:3917Las dos hermanitas (dos valses)4:2418Adelita (mazurka)1:4019Marieta (mazurka)2:3220Mazurka (in G)2:4521María (gavota)1:4022Recuerdos de la Alhambra5:4123Rosita (polka)1:3924Pepita (polka)1:4625Capricho árabe (serenata)5:2026Paquito (vals)2:2927Gran vals3:2328Alborada (capricho)2:2029Isabel (vals) (Johann Strauss II)1:4830Vals (in D)2:3531Pavana2:3132Estudio brillante de Alard2:23Musiche di Francisco Tàrrega (1852 - 1909)
2011 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 34:53
1Capriccio Arabo (Chitarra: Maurizio Oddone)4:322Fantasia su motivi della Traviata (Chitarra: Maurizio Oddone)7:103Maria (Chitarra: Maurizio Oddone)1:344Mazurka n. 1 in mi minore (Chitarra: Maurizio Oddone)1:455Mazurka n. 2 in la minore (Chitarra: Maurizio Oddone)2:056Mazurka n. 3 in sol maggiore (Chitarra: Maurizio Oddone)3:117Mazurka n. 4 in do maggiore (Chitarra: Maurizio Oddone)2:048Minuetto (Chitarra: Maurizio Oddone)1:479Recuerdos de la Alhambra (Chitarra: Maurizio Oddone)5:3010Rosita (Chitarra: Maurizio Oddone)1:4511Studio di velocità (Chitarra: Maurizio Oddone)1:3512Studio in forma di Minuetto (Chitarra: Maurizio Oddone)1:552012 · studio album
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Tracklist · 22 tracks · 1:02:14
1El Testament d’Amelia: Poc à poc2:142Capricho Árabe: Andantino5:473Recuerdos de la Alhambra: Andante4:564Nocturne in E, op. 9 no. 24:125Trois Morceaux espagnols: I. Tonadilla (Manola del Avapies). Allegretto con grazia2:366Trois Morceaux espagnols: II. Tango. Mouvement de Tango3:247Trois Morceaux espagnols: III. Guajira. Rhytmique et animé4:478Prelude "Endecha": Andante cantabile1:219Prelude, op. 28 no. 15 in A "Raindrop"5:2310Prelude no. 20 in E "Lágrima"2:0211Prelude, op. 28 no. 20 in C-sharp minor1:3312Prelude, op. 28 no. 6 in G-sharp minor1:5513Prelude, op. 28 no. 7 in D0:4814Prelude no. 18 in D1:1815Prelude no. 2 in A minor2:0116Cançó del Lladre2:1117Mazurka no. 22 in F-sharp minor, op. 33 no. 11:3818Mazurka "Adelita"1:3519Mazurka in G2:3820Mazurka "Sueño"1:2221Mazurka no. 25 in D minor, op. 33 no. 45:5922El Noi de la Mare2:34Francisco Tárrega: Homenaje a Francisco Tárrega
2013 · studio album
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Tracklist · 23 tracks · 54:05
1Capricho Árabe5:102María (Tango)3:153Gran Vals2:594Rosita (Polka)1:355Preludio Nº 22:156Mazurka En Sol3:177Las Dos Hermanas (Vals)3:418Danza Mora3:559Recuerdos de La Alhambra5:0610Preludio Impromptu0:4611Estudio En Mi Menor1:1812Lágrima1:4813Adelita1:5414Sueño (Mazurka Conchita)2:1615Endecha1:0816Marieta2:3517Paquito (Vals)2:2618Alborada2:0619Preludio En Mi Mayor1:2620Preludio En Re Mayor1:0321Preludio En Re Mayor (II)0:5522Preludio Nº 11:3223Preludio Nº 51:392015 · studio album
2018 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 51:06
1Cello Suite no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: I. Prelude4:512Cello Suite no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: II. Allemande4:173Cello Suite no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: III. Courante2:284Cello Suite no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: IV. Sarabande4:085Cello Suite no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: V. Menuets3:556Cello Suite no. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008: VI. Gigue3:167Preludio in D minor "A mi buen amigo D. Francisco Corréll"1:598Preludio in A minor "A mi queridísimo discípulo Miguel Llobet"2:219Preludio in D minor "Oremus"1:1310Preludio in E Major "Al ilustre Dr. Walter Leckie"1:5711Preludio in D minor "Endecha"1:1612Preludio in A minor1:1113Preludio in F-sharp minor0:4314Präludium, Fugue und Allegro, BWV 998: I. Präludium4:3715Präludium, Fugue und Allegro, BWV 998: II. Fugue8:0616Präludium, Fugue und Allegro, BWV 998: III. Allegro4:482022 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 20:02
1Soleares2:062La rubia de los lunares3:013Rigoletto - Fantasía para dos guitarras6:404Marzurka para dos guitarras0:485Vals para dos guitarras1:546Coral3:447Estudio1:49Tarrega: Complete Works for Guitar
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Tracklist · 58 tracks · 1:49:15
Disc 11Capricho Arabe5:262La Alborada2:023El Columpio2:394Tango “Maria”1:2154 Mazurkas: No. 3, Marieta2:1664 Mazurkas: No. 1, Adelita1:577Rosita1:338Gran Vals2:409Danza Odalisca3:0110Pavana2:0811Valse: No. 1, Paquito2:1712Pepita1:2013Danza Mora2:0714Vals in D Major2:0515Recuerdos de la Alhambra5:2416Mazurka in G Major2:1217Minuetto in E Major1:261820 Estudios: No. 20, Estudio brillante de Alard2:1319Isabel1:1520La Mariposa1:092120 Estudios: No. 20, Estudio brillante II de Alard1:2322Sueño1:4123Vals: No. 2, Las dos Hermanas4:0724Variations on Carnival of Venice8:56Disc 21Prelude in D Major0:272Prelude in E Major0:403Prelude in A Minor0:254Prelude in G Major0:445Prelude II in E Major1:286Prelude II in D Major0:207Prelude II in G Major0:378Prelude II in A Minor1:389Prelude in E Major “Lagrima”1:3610Prelude in D Minor1:2011Prelude in A Major0:4512Prelude VI in A Major0:4313Prelude in B Minor0:5914Prelude III in E Major0:4615Prelude in F‐Sharp Minor0:3416Prelude III in D Major0:3217Prelude in D Minor “Oremus”0:5218Prelude in D Minor “Endecha”0:5319Prelude II in A Major0:5120Prelude in C Major0:4921Prelude in E Minor0:3022Prelude V in A Major0:2323Prelude III in A Minor0:2524Prelude III in A Major0:2325Prelude IV in A Minor1:042620 Estudios: No. 1, Estudio en forma de Minuetto1:5727Estudio sobre un tema de Damas1:4128Sueño (tremolo)6:212920 Estudios: No. 3 in G Major, Estudio2:1730Estudio sobre una sonatina de Prudend3:253120 Estudios: No. 2, Estudio de Velocidad1:3032Mazurka sobra un tema anòmino Español0:523320 Estudios: No. 17, Estudio sobre un tema de Mendelssohn2:2534Fantasia on Themes from Verdi’s La traviata6:25
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Francisco Tárrega head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 48 | 96.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 26 | 89.3th |
| Studio albums | 18 | 95.8th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 20 | 93.9th |
| Recording span (years) | -74 | 5.6th |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francisco_tarrega_retrato.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/59bdd84b-28dd-4aef-bb5b-2e2c98997b10discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/59bdd84b-28dd-4aef-bb5b-2e2c98997b10core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_T%C3%A1rregabiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_T%C3%A1rregabiography—wikipedia-es · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_T%C3%A1rrega
Why this artist is in the database
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Tier rule: historic figure (48 language versions, career ended)
Image: Unknown · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q313372 · MusicBrainz: 59bdd84b-28dd-4aef-bb5b-2e2c98997b10
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