Orchester of plucked
instruments -
intermediate to advanced
SKU: M7.GHE-915
The Complete
Repertoire composed and
arranged for Lira
Orfeo. Edited by
Stefano Grondona.
Arranged by Miguel
Llobet. This edition:
Saddle-wire stitching.
Sheet music. 112 pages.
MDS (Music Distribution
Services) #GHE 915.
Published by MDS (Music
Distribution Services)
(M7.GHE-915).
ISBN
9783890449159.
English.
Miguel
Llobet's famous Catalan
plucked string orchestra
called the 'Lira Orfeo'
was active in Barcelona
from 1899-1906. Here we
present a new engraving
of all the surviving
original scores, set in
the same performing score
format in which they were
originally used 120 years
ago. The Lira Orfeo
quickly became an
important part of
Barcelona's cultural
scene; with Tárrega as
its honorary president
the Lira Orfeo society
was founded in 1898 and
an official inaugural
concert, shared between
Manuel Burgés (pno)
and Miguel Llobet (gtr)
took place in Barcelona
in 1898. The aim of the
society was to offer a
full musical education,
both theoretical and
instrumental, for
guitarists and players of
other plucked instrument
family, with eventually
with a place in its
Catalan plucked
instrument orchestra of
the same name. The
teachers for guitar were
Miguel Llobet, Pedro
Lloret and Domingo Prat.
Prominent musicians such
as Manuel Burgés and
Baldomera Cateura were
also on the teaching
staff. Classes were given
three times a week, and
as the players were
mainly amateurs with day
jobs, these took place in
the evening and often
went on until 2 o'clock
in the morning. The debut
of the orchestra took
place in 1903 and it gave
regular concerts at top
venues right up to the
society's dissolution in
1907, mainly due to lack
of funding. For the
instruments used see the
list of works below. The
repertoire is varied,
selected, arranged by
Miguel Llobet it was
mainly drawn from
traditional and
impressionist Iberian
music, as well as the
German classics, it
includes a specially
commissioned work
Triomphe d'Orphée' by
the famous Catalán
pianist Manuel Burgés.
We at Guitar Heritage are
proud to present the
first publication of this
huge cultural
contribution to music in
its original form and
prepared from the source
manuscripts which were
the work of Miguel
Llobet. The edition has
many illustrations, rare
documents and photographs
as well as a
comprehensive critical
commentary by Stefano
Grondona - whose
knowledge of Miguel
Llobet, as well as of
Catalonian culture, has
made an edition of this
scope possible. These
arrangements are superb
and presented as they
originally were in the
same score form. The now
relatively rare
instruments called for
can be replaced by
suitable alternatives -
this is ideal and
interesting material for
adapting to guitar
orchestra/ensemble or
mandolin orchestra, or
similar.