Victor Bedikian is a French guitar maker.
Bedikian worked with Robert Bouchet to learn the style of Antonio Torres, a Spanish guitar maker from the 19th century. Bedikian created his first guitar by 1965 and opened a workshop in Paris in 1977, where Bouchet would often visit. Bedikian is now retired.
Fernando Sor was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer of the late Classical era and early Romantic era. Best known for writing solo classical guitar music, he also composed an opera, three symphonies, guitar duos, piano music, songs, a Mass, and at least two successful ballets: Cinderella, which received over one hundred performances, and Hercule et Omphale.
Roland Dyens was a French classical guitarist, composer, and arranger.
Konrad Ragossnig was an Austrian classical guitarist and lutenist.
Jean-Pierre Danel is a French guitarist, record producer, music writer, and songwriter. Jean-Pierre Danel has recorded a large number of guitar albums as well as guitar teaching materials. In 2006, his album Guitar Connection, released by Sony BMG, was certified gold in France, followed by several other records certified gold or platinum.
A person who is specialized in the making of stringed instruments such as guitars, lutes and violins is called a luthier.
The early romantic guitar, the guitar of the Classical and Romantic period, shows remarkable consistency from 1790 to 1830. Guitars had six or more single courses of strings while the Baroque guitar usually had five double courses. The romantic guitar eventually led to Antonio de Torres Jurado's fan-braced Spanish guitars, the immediate precursors of the modern classical guitar.
Patrimonio is a commune in the French department of Upper Corsica, collectivity and island of Corsica.
Pierre-Jean Porro was an influential French classical guitarist, composer and music publisher.
A musical instrument of the chordophone family, the lyre-guitar was a type of guitar shaped to look like a lyre, popular as a fad-instrument in the late 1800s. It had six single courses, with a fretboard located between two curved arms recalling the shape of the ancient Greek kithara. It was tuned and played like the conventional guitar.
Andrea Tacchi is an Italian luthier who specializes in classical guitar making.
"Johnny Guitar" is a song written by Peggy Lee (lyrics) and Victor Young (music) and was the title track of the 1954 film of the same name, directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Joan Crawford. The music loosely echoes several themes from Spanish Dance No. 5: Andaluza by Enrique Granados, which was written for piano, but is often played on classical guitar.
Rafael Andia is a French classical guitarist.
Jaime Felipe José Bosch was a Catalan guitarist and song composer who established himself in Paris.
J'entends plus la guitare is a 1991 French semi-autobiographical drama film written and directed by Philippe Garrel. It was screened in competition at the 48th Venice International Film Festival, in which it won the Silver Lion. The film was given a US release in 2008, to critical acclaim.
Tina Šetkić is a French guitarist specialising in covering solos of heavy metal from Van Halen, Gary Moore, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, and Pink Floyd, and metalised classical music including pieces from Beethoven, Paganini, and Vivaldi. Her YouTube videos attracted the attention of musicians and guitar manufacturers. French manufacturer Vigier Guitars lists her on their corporate website's directory of Artists as having been a Vigier artist since 2013.
Woman Playing a Guitar is an 1897 painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir representing his late work period (1892–1919). It is now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, which bought it in 1901.
Éric Pénicaud is a French classical composer, classical guitarist and improviser.
René François Lacôte (1785–1871) was a Romantic guitar luthier from Paris, France. His guitars were played by guitarists such as Fernando Sor, Ferdinando Carulli, Dionisio Aguado, Napoléon Coste, and Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti. Musicologist René Vannes referred to Lacôte as the "Stradivarius of the guitar" in his book Universal Dictionary of Luthiers. Lacôte apprenticed to the luthier Joseph Pons. Ferndando Sor mentioned in his book Méthode pour la Guitare that "M. Lacote, a French maker, the only person who, besides his talents, has proved to me that he possesses the quality of not being inflexible to reasoning".
Jean-Maurice Mourat is a classical music guitarist, composer and former director of musical conservatories. He writes music for guitar, as well as for flute and piano. He has written a number of transcriptions for flute and guitar. His musical compositions are published by six French publishers and one Canadian publisher. He is also the author of a number of pedagogical works on guitar playing.