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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 86. Chapters: Anton Diabelli, Niccolo Paganini, Matteo Carcassi, Andres Segovia, Leo Brouwer, Toru Takemitsu, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Jim Ferguson, Mauro Giuliani, Fernando Sor, Miguel Llobet, Luigi Boccherini, Rodrigo Riera, Sergio Assad, Johann Kaspar Mertz, Francisco Tarrega, Agustin Barrios, Gaspar Sanz, Antonio Lauro, Manuel Ponce, Angelo Gilardino, Joaquin Rodrigo, Ferdinando Carulli, List of composers for the classical guitar, Dimitri Fampas, Napoleon Coste, Antoine de Lhoyer, Joseph Kuffner, Samuel Adler, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Akira Miyoshi, Federico Moreno Torroba, Per Norgard, Giulio Regondi, Andrei Sychra, Carlo Domeniconi, Dionisio Aguado, Andrew York, Roland Dyens, Lucien Gelas, Robert de Visee, Francesco Corbetta, Kostas Grigoreas, John W. Duarte, Andrei Krylov, Giovanni Paolo Foscarini, Alonso Mudarra, Filippo Gragnani, Pierre Jean Porro, Antonio Membrado, Gilbert Biberian, Adam Darr, Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, Poul Ruders, Reginald Smith Brindle, Peter Oberg, Ludovico Roncalli, Angelo Michele Bartolotti, Keiko Fujiie, Jaime Mirtenbaum Zenamon, Girolamo Montesardo, Coco Mosquito, Giovanni Battista Granata, Radames Gnattali, Robert Ballard, Sophocles Papas, Raul Borges, Jiro Nakano, Gentil Montana, Roland Ferrandi, Antoine Carre. Excerpt: Toru Takemitsu Takemitsu T ru, October 8, 1930 - February 20, 1996) was 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. He drew from a wide range of influences, including jazz, popular music, avant-garde procedures and traditional Japanese music, in a harmonic idiom largely derived from the music of Claude Debussy and Olivier Messiaen. In 1958, his Requiem for strings (1957) gained international attention, led to several commissions from across th...
