Description

Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829),  “The Complete Works Volume 2:  Guitar Solos,  Opus numbers 2 to 12 inclusive″.
Edited & with an Introduction by Brian Jeffery.
Published by Tecla Editions.
96 Pages.

This Volume 2 contains works which Giuliani composed from about 1807 to 1810,  when, as a brilliant young player and composer,  he quickly achieved fame in Vienna.

The detailed contents of Volume 2 are:

*  Op. 2:  Six Variations
*  Op. 3:  Three Rondos
*  Op. 4:  Six Variations on “Nel cor più non mi sento”
*  Op. 5:  New Rondo in imitation of the sound of the bells of Bologna (allegro vivace)
*  Op. 6:  Eight Variations
*  Op. 7:  Six Variations on a theme from the ballet “Die feindlichen Volksstämme”
*  Op. 8:  Three Rondos
*  Op. 9:  Six Variations (a fine expressive work, in which Variation 6 is in the form of a polonaise)
*  Op. 10:  Amusements
*  Op. 11:  Caprice (another fine work,  allegro vivace,  similar in some ways to the well-known Sonata opus 15,  which despite its higher opus number had in fact been published earlier, in 1808)
*  Op. 12:  Twelve Monferrine