Fernando Sor was born on February 13, 1778 in Barcelona, Spain and was baptized on February 14, 1778 `José Fernando Macarurio Sors. He was also a native Catalonia. He was a Spanish Musician composer. He wrote various kinds of music like opera, ballet, he also performed on other kind of instruments in his career. He also wrote a number of boleros and seguidillas in voices and guitar. Also, he made up his own system of music notation. In this time we are in his type of Spanish music he used to play does not fall anymore on the Spanish music instead it falls under the category of classical music.His family had already planned that he was going to be in the military career but they eventually knew that that’s not what their son wanted. Sor’s father was the one who introduced him to the guitar and Italian opera. At the age of 8 years old he was already a guitarist and musician. In 1796 or 1797 he found in the library of a Barcelona theater administrator an unused libretto for an opera on an ancient Greek theme and decided to set it to music when he was 17 or 18, Sor assumed a post as a lieutenant in the Spanish army. However he also had time to compose music during that time.At age 18 Sor’s father died and her mother could no longer …show more content…
afford to pay for his studies so she withdrew him. His career was overturned by invasion of troops from Napoleonic France in 1808 and he was forced to leave to Paris or if he didn’t go he would get arrested by King Fernando VII. During this era Fernando Sor felt forced to leave Spain because he somehow had become friends with the French army and he never returned back to Spain. He then concentrated more on his music, perhaps he knew he was never going back to his country. During 1813-1815 he seemed to have married but we still don’t know what his wife’s name was and he also had a daughter named either Catherine or Julia.
He had to leave again and this time he went to London, England because of the lack of music opportunities. He was frustrated because there was no work for him so he decided to go in search of more opportunities. In England the guitar hadn’t been known until the nineteenth century. In England he did find great opportunities of work he became friends with English people, gave concerts and he even went to sing to people’s houses. In 1830 Sor published "Methode pour la Guitare", “the most remarkable book on guitar technique ever written." Between 1828 and 1839 he also wrote 12 guitar
duets. The death of his daughter in 1837 hit him hard, the last two years he lived were very sad to him .Another thing that made him even more depressed was the failure of a petition he sent to the Spanish throne asking that he be permitted to return home to Catalonia to live out his final years. (His letter was never answered.) Since they never answered his letter he gave up and he spent his last years in Paris. Instead, Sor made his living by being a teacher the last years of his life until his death. He suffered for several years from a throat ailment and died in Paris on July 10, 1839 at age 60. After his death Sor’s compositions fell into obscurity, as did the classical guitar, until the instrument and Sor’s repertory were revived in the 20th century by Spanish guitarist and composer Andres Segovia.
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