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For most of my life I have played the classical guitar. Like many of my generation, I learned my way through the schools of Matteo Carcassi, Mauro Giuliani and Fernando Sor. But over the years, I became more interested in Renaissance and Baroque music. There is a large enough guitar repertoire from the Classic Period after 1800, but much less from prior periods. So, to play Baroque or Renaissance music on the guitar, I had to look for transcriptions and arrangements for other instruments, such as the lute, harpsichord, organ, voices, cello or violin.
Over the past 20 years, I have written and arranged scores that really resonated in me as listener and as player, always looking for ‘new’ works that did not yet exist as transcriptions for guitar. I selected them following my own taste and preferences. Since then, I have arranged more than 700 works by 45 composers, ranging from Francesco da Milano (died 1543) to Georg Friedrich Händel (died 1759). All works have been engraved by myself (with exception of 8 sonatas of S.L. Weiss, published by Metropolis Music Publishers), and all are in standard notation. A tab version can be added upon request.
I never intended these works for public consumption. But if people like them, why not share them?
A great part of my pieces are Free to download.
Please play and enjoy some of my hard work.
Ben Beuming
