Link profile: Segovia Museum

Category: Start / Spain and its Regions / Andalusia / Jaén / Linares
Andrés Segovia (Linares, Spain, 1893 - Madrid, Spain, 1987) was the dominant figure in the classical guitar world in the twentieth century. Inevitably, some argue that there were better guitarists (particularly Miguel Llobet, who died tragically young), but none had the charisma of Segovia and no-one succeeded to the same extent in increasing the stature of the instrument itself, placing the guitar in the concert hall instead of the tavern, as well as shaping the repertoire and heavily influencing the generation of classical guitarists that came after him. In other words, Segovia transformed the classical guitar. So it is something of a shame that the Segovia Museum in Linares (which also contains his tomb) is rather a dull affair, and its web site even duller.
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