John W. Duarte
Moraviana. Suite on Moravian Folksongs Op. 142 for Guitar
- Editor: Vladislav Bláha
- Publisher: Ut Orpheus
- Code: CH 361
- In Stock
-
€ 10.95
I am very grateful to Andrea Schiavina and Ut Orpheus Edizioni for their interest in my father’s unpublished works. I hope that these new pieces will pique the interest of guitarists the world over and contribute to an overview of the work of one of the guitar’s most prolific composers.
My thanks go to Brian Roberts, of Wayne State University, who has offered to oversee the technical and musical aspects concerned with presenting this music and to all the individual editors who have generously given of their time. Any mistakes in the transmission of their ideas are entirely mine.
(Christopher Duarte)
My thanks go to Brian Roberts, of Wayne State University, who has offered to oversee the technical and musical aspects concerned with presenting this music and to all the individual editors who have generously given of their time. Any mistakes in the transmission of their ideas are entirely mine.
(Christopher Duarte)
Author: John W. Duarte (1919-2004)
Editor: Vladislav Bláha
Publication Date: 6/28/2021
Pages: pp. 20
Size: 230x310 mm
Binding: Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-2153-2727-6
Code: CH 361


He was educated at Manchester Central High School (1931-35) and Manchester University Faculty of Technology (1936-40). He worked as a professional chemist until 1969, then abandoned chemistry in favour of full-time music. His only formal musical education was lessons with Terence Usher (1934-36) in jazz-guitar playing; the rest was by self-instruction. His many friendships with great artists included one of 39 years with Andrés Segovia and an enforcedly shorter one with Ida Presti, who died at the age of 42.
He was the composer of nearly 150 works for the guitar and lute (many commissioned with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain and other sources, official and private, both domestic and overseas). Many have been published and nearly half have been commercially recorded. He was also the author of very many arrangements (several also recorded) and didactic works.
As the writer of countless articles he was a regular contributor to Soundboard, interviewer and reviewer of books, music, concerts and recordings of many kinds in Gramophone, Music Teacher and Classical Guitar, and author of numerous concert-programme notes and about 250 liner notes for records and CDs of various kinds, including those for the complete reissue of Julian Bream’s recordings for RCA (28 compact discs). He received a GRAMMY Award for his annotation to the reissue of Segovia’s recordings of 1927-39. His Appalachian Dreams op. 121 formed the centrepiece of the 2001 GRAMMY Award-winning album Dreams of a World by Sharon Isbin, and the Joan Baez Suite> op. 144 was also the centrepiece of her 2010 GRAMMY Award-winning album, Journey to the New World. In 2022, Idylle pour Ida op. 93 featured on Berta Rojas' Latin GRAMMY Award-winning album, Legado. He contributed regularly to Music in Education, Guitar Review, Guitar International, Music & Musicians, Records and Recording, and Performance and was a contributor to the revised edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
As a teacher he prepared many students for successful careers, and he was Director of the Cannington International Guitar Summer School and Festival (1974-93), Course Director of the Bath International Guitar Festival (1994-95) and the Oatridge International Guitar Summer School and Festival (near Edinburgh, Scotland). He worked as a teacher, lecturer and adjudicator in 29 countries outside the United Kingdom.
At the Convention of the Guitar Foundation of America in October 1999 he received an Award for Lifetime Achievement.
More information can be found at www.johnwduarte.com
Duarte, John W. Variations on an American Folk Song (Colorado Trail) Op. 28 for Guitar
CH 359 - € 10.95
Duarte, John W. Three Songs without Words for Carlos Andrés Op. 45 for Guitar
CH 360 - € 10.95
Fauré, Gabriel Pavane Op. 50 for Flute (Violin), Viola and Guitar
CH 341 - € 15.95
Bizet, Georges Entr’acte from ‘Carmen’ for Flute, Viola and Guitar
CH 337 - € 12.95
Ponce, Manuel María 6 Preludios Fáciles for Guitar
CH 331 - € 9.95