Editing Andrés Segovia (section)

== Repertoire ==
Segovia's repertoire consisted of three principal pillars: first, contemporary works, including concertos and sonatas, usually specifically written for Segovia himself by composers with whom he forged working relationships, notably [[Federico Moreno Torroba]], [[Federico Mompou]], and [[Joaquín Rodrigo]], the Mexican composer [[Manuel Ponce (composer)|Manuel Ponce]], the Italian composer [[Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco]], and the great Brazilian composer [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]]; second, transcriptions, usually made by Segovia himself,<ref>Julian Bream (A Life on the Road) by Tony Palmer (First Published in the UK by Macdonald & Co 1982) ({{ISBN|0-356-07880-9}}) p125 "the composer Peter Warlock&nbsp;... persuaded the Oxford University Press to publish his edition of Dowland's Lachrimae or Seven Tears, and this was the edition Segovia used for his guitar transcriptions."</ref> of classical works originally written for other instruments (e.g., lute, harpsichord, piano, violin, cello) by [[Johann Sebastian Bach]], [[Isaac Albéniz]], [[Enrique Granados]], and many other prominent composers; third, traditional classical guitar works by composers such as [[Fernando Sor]] and [[Francisco Tárrega]]. Segovia's influence enlarged the repertoire, mainly as a commissioner or dedicatee of new works, as a transcriber, and as a composer<ref>[http://www.justclassicalguitar.com/vpmusicmedia/dbpocci/dbopere.php?Name1=segovia&Title1=&Publi1=&Instr1=&Apply=+Search+ Andrés Segovia's compositions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009132518/http://www.justclassicalguitar.com/vpmusicmedia/dbpocci/dbopere.php?Name1=segovia&Title1=&Publi1=&Instr1=&Apply=+Search+ |date=9 October 2011 }}; Pocci Catalog (see [http://www.vpmusicmedia.com/ also])</ref> with such works as his ''Estudio sin luz''.

[[File:Andrés Segovia (1962).jpg|thumb|{{center|Segovia in 1962}}]]

Segovia's main musical aesthetic preferences were music of the early 20th century (and turn of the century) especially in the Spanish romantic-modern and nationalist style. That is perhaps best typified by Segovia's own work ''Estudio sin Luz''. Many works of that and similar styles were written especially for him and formed part of his core repertoire: particularly the guitar works of [[Federico Moreno Torroba]] (1891–1982), such as the ''Sonatina'', which was first performed by Segovia in Paris in 1925.<ref name="duarte">{{cite web | url=http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.554555&catNum=554555&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English | title=''Guitar Recital''| author=John W. Duarte | publisher=Naxos | access-date=12 April 2016}}</ref>

Segovia was selective and performed only works with which he identified personally. He was known to reject atonal works or those that he considered too radical even if they were dedicated to him; he rejected [[Frank Martin (composer)|Frank Martin]]'s ''Quatre pièces brèves'', [[Darius Milhaud]]'s ''Segoviana'', etc.<ref name="AnnalaMätlik2008 104">{{cite book|author1=Hannu Annala|author2=Heiki Mätlik|title=Handbook of Guitar and Lute Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8_cS-jP7ntoC&pg=PA104|year=2008|publisher=Mel Bay Publications|isbn=978-0-7866-5844-2|page=104}}</ref><ref>[http://markmarrington.com/2009/08/22/britishness-and-the-classical-guitar-after-1950-composers-performers-and-identity-in-the-contemporary-british-guitar-repertoire/ Britishness and the classical guitar after 1950: composers, performers and identity in the contemporary British guitar repertoire] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023233555/http://markmarrington.com/2009/08/22/britishness-and-the-classical-guitar-after-1950-composers-performers-and-identity-in-the-contemporary-british-guitar-repertoire/ |date=23 October 2011}} by Mark Marrington</ref> Even though rejected by Segovia, all of those works are today published and available.<ref>[http://www.universaledition.com/4-Pieces-breves-for-Guitar-Frank-Martin/sheet-music-and-more/detailview/UE12711/kid/310013 Frank Martin: Quatre pièces brèves]; Universal Edition</ref><ref name="Wade2001">{{cite book|author=Graham Wade|title=A Concise History of the Classic Guitar|url=https://archive.org/details/melbaypresentsco00wade|url-access=registration|access-date=23 July 2011|date=1 August 2001|publisher=Mel Bay Publications|isbn=978-0-7866-4978-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/melbaypresentsco00wade/page/118 118]–}}</ref><ref>[http://www.alphonseleduc.com/EN/recherche.php?q=Segoviana Darius Milhaud: Segoviana]; Éditions Alphonse Leduc</ref><ref>[http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Piezas+liricas+para+guitarra.-a0151592104 Book Review: The Andres Segovia Archive, edited by Angelo Gilardino, Liugi Biscaldi] by Silvio Jose dos Santos</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.classical.guitar/msg/bb098424ba8a7813|title=Gilardino on the Andrés Segovia Archive|work=google.com}}</ref><ref>[http://www.berben.it/doc/htm/eng/frame_novit%C3%A0.htm Andrés Segovia Archive] at Bèrben</ref>

=== Teaching ===
Segovia viewed teaching as vital to his mission of propagating the guitar and gave master classes throughout his career. His most famous master classes took place at ''[[Música en Compostela]]'', in the Spanish city of [[Santiago de Compostela]].<ref name="The Teaching of Andrés Segovia by John Mills">{{cite web|url=http://www.egtaguitarforum.org/ExtraArticles/SegoviaTeaching.html |title=John Mills: The Teaching of Andres Segovia |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018062021/http://egtaguitarforum.org/ExtraArticles/SegoviaTeaching.html |archive-date=18 October 2007 }}</ref>

Segovia also taught at the [[Accademia Musicale Chigiana]] in [[Siena]] for numerous years, where he was aided by [[Alirio Díaz]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tp6LO9n1TrIC&pg=PA115&q=Siena The Guitar from the Renaissance to the Present Day] by Harvey Turnbull; Bold Strummer, 1992; {{ISBN|0-933224-57-5}}</ref>

His teaching style is a source of controversy among some of his former students, who considered it to be dogmatically authoritarian.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Krieger|first=Diane|title=The Astonishing LAGQ|journal=University of Southern California Trojan Family Magazine|date=Summer 2002|url=http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/trojan_family/summer02/LAGQ/LAGQ_page1.html|access-date=29 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002131501/http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/trojan_family/summer02/LAGQ/LAGQ_page1.html|archive-date=2 October 2013|url-status = dead}}</ref> One of Segovia's most celebrated former students of the classical guitar, [[John Williams (guitarist)|John Williams]], has said that Segovia bullied students into playing only his style and stifled the development of their own styles.<ref name=alberge>{{cite news|last=Alberge|first=Dalia|title=John Williams says guitar maestro Andrés Segovia bullied students and stifled their creativity|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/oct/14/john-williams-accuses-segovia-snob|newspaper=The Guardian|date=14 October 2012}}</ref><ref name="williams_interview">{{cite web|url=http://www.guitarteacher.com.au/johnwilliams.htm |title=John Williams Interview with Austin Prichard-Levy |work=The Twang Box Dynasty |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825045035/http://www.guitarteacher.com.au/johnwilliams.htm |archive-date=25 August 2007 }}</ref> Williams has also said that Segovia was dismissive of music that did not have what Segovia considered the correct classical origins, such as South American music with popular roots.<ref name=alberge /> He was also critical of Williams' work with the group [[Sky (English/Australian band)|Sky]] for the same reasons.

=== Legacy ===
Segovia can be considered a catalytic figure in granting respectability to the guitar as a serious concert instrument capable of evocativeness and depth of interpretation. [[Federico Moreno Torroba]] said, "The musical interpreter who fascinates me the most is Andrés Segovia."<ref>[http://hemeroteca.abcdesevilla.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1975/10/12/166.html ABC Madrid]; 1975/10/12; translated from the Spanish: "El intérprete musical que más me fascina es Andrés Segovia"</ref> He can be credited to have dignified the classical guitar as a legitimate concert instrument before the discerning music public, which had hitherto viewed the guitar merely as a limited if sonorous parlour instrument.

In [[Linares, Jaén|Linares]], the Segovia Museum "Fundación Andrés Segovia" was established in May 1995,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.segoviamuseo.com/marcoin.htm |title=Pagina nueva 2 |work=segoviamuseo.com |access-date=12 April 2016 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044528/http://www.segoviamuseo.com/marcoin.htm |archive-date=4 March 2016 }}</ref> and Linares (Segovia's birthplace) also has a bronze statue in his honour, created by Julio López Hernández and unveiled on 25 May 1984.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=6lYTp7HqQn0C&pg=PA171&q=bronze statue A Concise History of the Classic Guitar] by Graham Wade; Mel Bay Publications, 2001; {{ISBN|0-7866-4978-X}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.panoramio.com/photo/53377292|title=Panoramio – Photo of Monumento a Andrés Segovia (Linares)|work=panoramio.com|access-date=12 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422164447/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/53377292|archive-date=22 April 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[http://guitarra.artepulsado.com/guitarra/segovia_fundacion_visita.htm Visita a la Fundación Andrés Segovia]; Artepulsado</ref>

Segovia influenced a generation of classical guitarists who built on his technique and musical sensibility, including [[Christopher Parkening]], [[Julian Bream]], [[John Williams (guitarist)|John Williams]] and [[Oscar Ghiglia]], all of whom have acknowledged their debt to him. Further, Segovia left behind a large body of edited works and transcriptions for classical guitar, including several transcriptions of Bach, particularly an extraordinarily-demanding classical guitar transcription of the [[Chaconne]] from the [[Partita for Violin No. 2 (Bach)|2nd Partita for Violin (BWV 1004)]]. During his lifetime, guitarists were eager to claim association with Segovia, who suggested that he had not actually taught as many students as has been claimed. He once said, "All over the world I have 'pupils' I have never met."<ref>Duarte, John W. ''Andres Segovia As I Knew Him''. Pacific, MO: Mel Bay, 1998. p. 5</ref>

His editions of works originally written for guitar include newly-fingered and occasionally-revised versions of works from the standard repertoire (most famously, his edition of a selection of twenty ''estudios'' by [[Fernando Sor]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Fernando Sor: Twenty Studies |url=https://www.guitarsalon.com/store/p2807-fernando-sor-twenty-studies-wcd.html |website=Guitar Studies International |access-date=16 September 2018}}</ref> the "cornerstone" of every serious student's technique since its publication in 1945 although somewhat ironically, Segovia, in the preface to that work, disparaged Sor as "not among the vigorous talents") as well as compositions written for him, including by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Federico Mompou, and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.<ref name="blair jackson">{{cite web |last1=Jackson |first1=Blair |title=Bringing the Andrés Segovia Archive to Life with Spanish Guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez |url=https://classicalguitarmagazine.com/bringing-the-andres-segovia-archive-to-life-with-spanish-guitarist-roberto-moronn-perez/ |website=Classical Guitar |date=7 September 2017 |access-date=12 September 2021}}</ref>

==== Namings ====
* The main-belt asteroid [[3822 Segovia]] was named in his memory in 1989.<ref name="springer" />
* A competition co-sponsored by the European Guitar Teachers Association is named after Segovia.<!--<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071213111132/http://www.certamenandressegovia.es/ Certamen Internacional de Guitarra Clásica "Andrés Segovia"]</ref>--><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gitarrevelbert.de/|title=International Youth Competition for Guitar Velbert Internationaler Jugend-Wettbewerb für Gitarre in Velbert|work=gitarrevelbert.de|access-date=12 April 2016}}</ref>