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When young Andrés Segovia told his instructors at Spain's Granada Musical Institute that he wanted to study the guitar rather than the piano or violin, they sniffed. The guitar was an instrument for gypsies, not for a young man who had ambitions to be a musician. Besides, no one at the conservatory knew enough about the guitar to teach it. Teenager Segovia stubbornly set out to teach himself...
...Paris last week, as chubby, greying Andrés Segovia began his 41st year as a concert artist, there was no longer any question about the guitar's status as a concert instrument. For Segovia fans, it had lost practically all its associations with gypsies and romantically inclined caballeros, had become instead a sensitive interpreter of serious music. At 57, Segovia had played in most of the world's concert halls, had long ago won a world reputation as the guitar's acknowledged classical master...
...meager score of existing guitar literature he had added more than 150 of his own transcriptions of works for harpsichord, lute, violin and piano by the world's great composers. Modern composers, hearing Segovia, began writing music especially for the guitar...
...youngsters from 30 countries are playing, singing and waving batons in the palazzo's luxurious galleries and chambers. By month's end, the 70 most talented of them will have started an intensive two-month course under such topnotch musicians as Violinist-Composer Georges Enesco, Guitarist Andres Segovia and Conductor Paul van Kampen. In September, a score or more of the best students will have Chigi-sponsored debuts...
Last summer, he seemed at last to have found what he was looking for when he married Charlotte Tiedemann, a plump, blonde Lieder-singer from Germany. But the new Duchess of Segovia also seemed to have given the duke new dynastic ambitions...