John William Duarte

John W. Duarte (1919-2004) was a British guitarist, composer, and music journalist. Having received a degree in Chemistry, his fascination with the endless possibilities of the Guitar caused him to ab...

Spielpartitur - Alt-Blockflöte und Gitarre

Spielpartitur - Alt-Blockflöte und Gitarre

Die Englische Suite op. 31 ist John Duartes bekanntestes und am häufigsten aufgeführtes Werk. Die Suite, die Andrés Segovia und Emilia Magdalena Corral Sancho (genannt Emilita) anlässlich ihrer Hochze...

Titles

Das Stück wird von Freunden/innen traditioneller Musik mit originellen Klangfarben (bei mittlerer Schwierigkeit) geschätzt.

The Three Studies op. 88 were written in 1979-80, but not published, for the first time, until the 1990s. My father visited Japan in 1993 and presented Mr Jun Sugawara, the editor of ‘Gendai Guitar’ M...

The Joan Baez Suite, op. 144 is the last of the great folk song suites written by John Duarte. Stretching back to his English Suite op. 31, recorded by Segovia and many others, he brought the folk mus...

It is ironic that the creator of this uncompromising book for Guitarists was himself almost entirely self-taught. Duarte originally earned a degree in chemistry and worked as an industrial chemist for...