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Carulli

Ferdinando Carulli (1770–1841) was an Italian guitarist and composer who taught himself the instrument as a young man in Naples before moving to Paris in 1808, where the guitar had become the fashionable instrument of the salon. He rapidly established himself as the city's leading guitar teacher, and his Méthode complète pour la guitare (Op. 27, 1810) became one of the most widely used teaching methods of the nineteenth century. His output of more than four hundred works ranges from solo pieces and exercises to concertos and chamber music for guitar with strings, much of it still in practical use today.

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