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The music of Ernesto García de León is published and edited in the USA by Michael Lorimer. Mp3 music samples are available for streaming here»
Volume 1, (4 Works)
In this first collection three important strains are represented: music for didactic purposes (Cinco Bosquejos—“Five Sketches”), improvisational, folkloric and/or pop–influenced pieces (Ni Lo Pienses—“Don’t Even Think It" and El Viejo—“The Old Man”), and works of larger scope with roots in Classical European forms and development (Las Campanas—“The Bells”/Sonata N° 1). Read More»
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Volume 2, (20 Studies)
This second collection contains “20 Studies”—(20 Estudios), Op. 50. 20 Studies is an ingenious collection that addresses fundamental questions about how to develop and maintain guitar technique. It is designed to serve guitar teachers and students as well as performers and concert audiences. Since it explores not just the technique of the instrument, but its musical and expressive aspects as well, it makes daily technical work enjoyable, not tedious—even for someone only beginning to study the guitar. Read More»
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Volume 3, (3 Sonatas)
This third volume of Ernesto García de León’s guitar music presents three of his most well–known, most–performed and most–recorded works, the three Sonatas, Opuses 21, 31, and 34. García de León’s first sonata The Bells (Las Campanas) appears in the first volume of the present series. Now, all four of the sonatas that García de León has completed to date are in publication: Evocación Tropical (Tropical Evocation)—Sonata N° 2; Viejos y Mojigangas (“Viejos” y “Mojigangas”)—Sonata N° 3; and Lejanías (Distant Places, Distant Times)—Sonata N° 4. Read More»
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Volume 4, (24 Preludes)
The 24 Preludes, Op. 37 is a collection of imaginative and wonderful concert pieces that perhaps more than any other opus in Ernesto García de León’s catalogue casts light upon and reflects the aura of his entire body of work. Like the 20 Studies, Op. 50, 24 Preludes is a set of musical exercises. But if Op. 50 is for undergraduates, the complementary challenges of Op. 37 are for graduates, and the accent is more on “musical” than on “exercises.” Read More»
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Volume 5, (17 Works)
This fifth volume of Ernesto García de León’s collected works is a panorama of seventeen guitar solos composed over a twenty–eight year period, starting with his first Opus, and going all the way through some of his latest works. Included are a four–movement suite (Op. 1), short, etude–like pieces (Ops. 6, 8, and Preludio para Adriana, Op. 26), a set of variations (Op. 4), concert pieces of short duration (Ops. 2, 22, 24, 25, and 58), a pair of nocturnes (Ops. 40 and 57), two fantasies (Op. 20 and 27), and three pieces concerned with death (Ops. 54, 56 Op. 60). Read More»
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Volume 6, (4 Guitar Duos)
Ernesto García de León’s four guitar duos are perhaps his most often performed compositions: Preludio y Son N° 1, Op.7; Preludio y Son N° 2, Op. 30; Preludio y Son N° 3, Op. 32; and Suite, Op.35. Written on commission for three different ensembles in the twelve years between 1980 and 1992, each work is based on Mexican music in general, the music of Veracruz in particular. Read More»
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Editor's Note: Article and images taken from Ernesto García de León, Collected Works, Volumes 1–6 by Michael Lorimer, ed. Used by permission © Copyright by Adela Publishing (ASCAP).