Luigi Legnani

Luigi Legnani stands in the brilliant 19th-century world where guitar virtuosity, opera culture, and touring performance met. The musician from Italy wrote concert pieces, caprices, and studies that extended the technical vocabulary of the classical guitar. His reputation is often heard beside Paganini, whose violin virtuosity offered a parallel model of speed, theatre, and instrumental display.

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  Classical Guitar

  The guitar caprices of Luigi Legnani imbued with famous Paganini works

  Luigi Legnani was a guitar composer whose most active years coincided with the rise of the Romantic period which was...