Carlo Carfagna

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Carlo Carfagna
Background information
Born	1940 (age 80–81) Guarcino, Italy
Genres	Classical music
Instruments	Guitar
Years active	1960–present
Website	www.carlocarfagna.it[permanent dead link]

Carlo Carfagna (born in Guarcino, Italy, 1940) is an Italian classical guitarist, author of many musical publications. His musical education took place at the Conservatory of Rome and Naples, under the guidance of Mario Gangi, and was subsequently a teaching colleague for many years at Santa Cecilia.

Publications[]

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Main works

• Integral edition in three volumes of Fernando Sor's .
• Integral edition in three volumes of Francisco Tárrega's works.
• Revision of the four Lute Suites by Johann Sebastian Bach.
• Revision of the four sonatas by Sor

He published with the following firms: (Ancona), Ricordi (Milan), Music Inc. (Dallas), Nicolai (Rome), (Rome), (Rome).

Essays[]

• Profilo storico della chitarra, (with ), , Ancona, 1966
• Dizionario Chitarristico Italiano (with ), Bèrben, Ancona, 1968
• Liuteria Classica Italiana, chitarre del XIX e XX secolo (with ), Camerata Musicale Barese, 1985
• Chitarra - Storia e Immagini (with ), , Roma, 2000
• Il libretto per musica e Metastasio, Erom, Rome, 2005
• Aspetti della Chitarra nell'Ottocento, Erom, Rome, 2006
• He has written together with the article Guitar in the Musical Encyclopedia edited by Fratelli Fabbri Editori
• He has written many essays on guitar-specific newspapers (even small treatises on History of art)
• He has cowritten with Gian Paolo Chiti a little multimedia opera, Matrona quaedam.