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This is a list of classical guitarists.
Name | Born | Country |
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Antoine Carré | France | |
Francesco Corbetta | c.1615–1681 | Italy |
Francisco Guerau | 1649–1717/22 | Spain |
Gaspar Sanz | 1640–1710 | Spain |
Giovanni Battista Granata | 1620/1–1687 | Italy |
Angelo Michele Bartolotti | ??–c.1682 | Italy |
Ludovico Roncalli | 1654–1713 | Italy |
Girolamo Montesardo | early 17th century | Italy |
Robert de Visée | c.1658–1725 | France |
Santiago de Murcia | c.1682 or 1685–1732 | Spain |
Name | Born | Country |
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Adam Darr | 1811–1866 | Germany |
Andrei Osipovich Sychra | 1773(6?)–1850 | Russia |
Antoine de Lhoyer | 1768–1852 | France |
Catharina Josepha Pratten | 1821–1895 | Germany, United Kingdom |
Dionisio Aguado | 1784–1849 | Spain |
Eduard Bayer | 1822–1908 | Germany |
Ernest Shand | 1868–1924 | United Kingdom |
Ferdinando Carulli | 1770–1841 | Italy |
Fernando Sor | 1778–1839 | Spain |
Francesco Molino | 1775–1847 | Italy |
Francisco Tárrega | 1852–1909 | Spain |
François de Fossa | 1775–1849 | Spain, France |
Giulio Regondi | 1823–1872 | Switzerland, Italy, United Kingdom |
Ivan Padovec | 1800–1873 | Croatia |
Jacques Bosch | 1825–1895 | Spain, France |
Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz | 1805–1881 | Poland |
Johann Kaspar Mertz | 1806–1856 | Slovakia, Austria |
José Brocá | 1805–1882 | Spain |
José Ferrer | 1835–1916 | Spain |
Joseph Küffner | 1776–1856 | Germany |
Julián Arcas | 1832–1882 | Spain |
Luigi Legnani | 1790–1877 | Italy |
Luis T. Romero | 1854–1893 | USA |
Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti | 1801–1878 | Italy |
Matteo Carcassi | 1792–1853 | Italy |
Mauro Giuliani | 1781–1829 | Italy |
Napoléon Coste | 1805–1883 | France |
Niccolò Paganini | 1782–1840 | Italy |
Pierre Jean Porro | 1750–1831 | France |
Simon Molitor | 1766–1848 | Germany, Austria |
Wenzel Thomas Matiegka | 1773–1830 | Czech Republic |
Victor Magnien | 1802–1884 | France |
Name | Born | Country |
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Abel Carlevaro | 1916–2001 | Uruguay |
Agustín Barrios Mangoré | 1885–1944 | Paraguay |
Alexandre Lagoya | 1929–1999 | France |
Alirio Díaz | 1923–2016 | Venezuela |
Andrés Segovia | 1893–1987 | Spain |
Antonio Lauro | 1917–1986 | Venezuela |
Antonio Membrado | 1935–2016 | Spain |
Carlos Paredes | 1925–2004 | Portugal |
Cayo Sila Godoy | 1919–2014 | Paraguay |
Celedonio Romero | 1913–1996 | Spain |
Clara Nicola | 1926–2017 | Cuba |
Emilio Pujol | 1886–1980 | Spain |
Frantz Casseus | 1915–1993 | Haiti |
Heinrich Albert | 1870–1950 | Germany |
Ida Presti | 1924–1967 | France |
Italo Meschi | 1887–1957 | Italy |
José Tomás | 1934–2001 | Spain |
Konrad Ragossnig | 1932–2018 | Austria |
Laurindo Almeida | 1917–1995 | Brasil |
Leif Christensen | 1950–1988 | Denmark |
Luise Walker | 1910–1998 | Austria |
María Luisa Anido | 1907–1996 | Argentina, Spain |
Miguel Ablóniz | 1917–2001 | Egypt, Greece, Italy |
Miguel Llobet | 1878–1938 | Spain |
Milan Zelenka | 1939 | Czech Republic |
Narciso Yepes | 1927–1997 | Spain |
Oscar Ghiglia | 1938 | Italy |
Regino Sainz de la Maza | 1896–1981 | Spain |
Renata Tarragó | 1927–2005 | Spain |
Sergei Orekhov | 1935–1998 | Russia |
Stanko Prek | 1915–1999 | Slovenia |
Vahdah Olcott-Bickford | 1885–1980 | USA |
William Foden | 1860–1947 | USA |
Name | Born | Country | |
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Adam Holzman | 1960 | USA | |
Adnan Ahmedic | 1975 | Bosnia | |
Alberto Ponce | 1935–2019 | Spain, France | |
Alejandro González | 1973 | Cuba | |
Alice Artzt | 1943 | USA | |
Álvaro Pierri | 1953 | Uruguay | |
Ana Vidović | 1980 | Croatia | |
Anastasia Bardina | 1962 | Russia | |
Anders Miolin | 1961 | Sweden, Switzerland | |
Andrew York | 1958 | USA | |
Angel Romero | 1946 | Spain | |
Aniello Desiderio | 1971 | Italy | |
AnnaMaria Cardinalli | 1979 | USA | |
Annette Kruisbrink | 1958 | Netherlands | |
Antigoni Goni | 1969 | Greece | |
Artyom Dervoed | 1981 | Russia | |
Andrei Krylov | 1959 | Russia | |
Badi Assad | 1966 | Brazil | |
Benjamin Dwyer | 1965 | Ireland | |
Berta Rojas | 1966 | Paraguay | |
Carlo Domeniconi | 1947 | Italy | |
Carlo Marchione | 1964 | Italy | |
Carlos Bonell | 1949 | United Kingdom | |
Cesar Amaro | 1948–2012 | Uruguay | |
Charles Ramirez | 1953 | United Kingdom | |
Chen Shanshan | 1983 | China | |
Christopher Parkening | 1947 | USA | |
Dang Ngoc Long | 1957 | Germany, Vietnam | |
David Leisner | 1953 | USA | |
Dave Flynn | 1977 | Ireland | |
David Russell | 1953 | United Kingdom | |
David Starobin | 1951 | USA | |
David Tanenbaum | 1956 | USA | |
Denis Azabagic | 1972 | Bosnia | |
Detlev Bork | 1967 | Germany | |
Dimitri Illarionov | 1979 | Russia | |
Dušan Bogdanović | 1955 | Serbia | |
Edoardo Catemario | 1965 | Italy | |
Edson Lopes | 1957 | Brazil | |
Eduardo Fernández | 1952 | Uruguay | |
Ekachai Jearakul | 1987 | Thailand | |
Elie Ossipovitch | 1987 | France | |
Eliot Fisk | 1958 | USA, Austria | |
Erkan Ogur | 1954 | Turkey | |
Erling Møldrup | 1943–2016 | Denmark | |
Evan Hirschelman | 1976 | USA | |
Evangelos Assimakopoulos | 1940 | Greece | |
Filomena Moretti | 1973 | Italy | |
Flavio Sala | 1983 | Italy | |
Frank Bungarten | 1958 | Germany | |
Gabriel Estarellas | 1952 | Spain | |
Gareth Koch | 1962 | Australia | |
Gentil Montaña | 1942–2011 | Colombia | |
Georg Gulyás | 1968 | Sweden | |
Gilbert Biberian | 1944 | Turkey, United Kingdom | |
Goran Krivokapić | 1979 | Serbia | |
Göran Söllscher | 1955 | Sweden | |
Gordon O'Brien | 1966 | Canada | |
Heike Matthiesen | 1969-2023 | Germany | |
Hubert Käppel | 1951 | Germany | |
Hucky Eichelmann | 1956 | Germany, Thailand | |
Humberto Bruni Lamanna | 1957 | Venezuela | |
Irina Kulikova | 1982 | Russia | |
Jaime Mirtenbaum Zenamon | 1953 | Bolivia | |
Jason Vieaux | 1973 | USA | |
Jim Ferguson | 1948 | USA | |
Johanna Beisteiner | 1976 | Austria | |
John Couch | 1976 | New Zealand, Australia | |
John Feeley | 1955 | Ireland | |
John Schneider | 1950 | USA | |
John Williams | 1941 | Australia, United Kingdom | |
Jorge Cardoso | 1949 | Argentina | |
Jorge Morel | 1931 | Argentina, USA | |
József Eötvös | 1962 | Hungary | |
Józef Zsapka | 1947 | Slovakia | |
Juanjo Domínguez | 1951–2019 | Argentina | |
Julian Bream | 1933–2020 | United Kingdom | |
Jürgen Rost | 1945 | Germany | |
Kaori Muraji | 1978 | Japan | |
Karin Schaupp | 1972 | Germany, Australia | |
Peter and Zoltán Katona | 1968 | Hungary | |
Kazuhito Yamashita | 1961 | Japan | |
Kyuhee Park | 1985 | South Korea | |
Laura Snowden | United Kingdom, France | ||
Laura Young | 1962 | Canada | |
Leo Brouwer | 1939 | Cuba | |
Leon Koudelak | 1961 | Czech Republic, Switzerland, Thailand | |
Li Jie | 1981 | China | |
Liat Cohen | 1971 | France, Israel | |
Liona Boyd | 1949 | Canada | |
Liza Zoe | 1940 | Greece | |
Magnus Andersson | 1955 | Sweden | |
Mak Grgic | 1987 | Slovenia | |
Manuel Barrueco | 1952 | Cuba | |
Marc Ongley [1] | 1952 | USA | |
Marc Regnier | 19?? | USA | |
Marcin Dylla | 1976 | Poland | |
Marco Pereira | 1950 | Brazil | |
Margarita Escarpa | 1964 | Spain | |
María Isabel Siewers | 1950 | Argentina | |
Maria Kämmerling | 1946 | Germany | |
Marko Topchii | 1991 | Ukraine | |
Mårten Falk | 1973 | Sweden | |
Martha Masters | 1972 | USA | |
Mattias Schulstad | 1984 | Sweden | |
Máximo Diego Pujol | 1957 | Argentina | |
Michael Laucke | 1947 | Canada | |
Michael Nicolella | 1963 | USA | |
Michael Tröster | 1956 | Germany | |
Milica Ilic | 1981 | Australia | |
Milos Karadaglic | 1983 | Montenegro | |
Monika Rost | 1943 | Germany | |
Nicola Hall | 1969 | United Kingdom | |
Nikita Koshkin | 1956 | Russia | |
Norbert Kraft | 1950 | Austria, Canada | |
Ólavur Jakobsen | 1964 | Faroe Islands | |
Oliver Fartach-Naini | 1964 | Germany | |
Pablo Márquez | 1967 | Argentina | |
Patrick Kearney | 1970 | Canada | |
Paul Galbraith | 1964 | United Kingdom | |
Pavel Steidl | 1961 | Czech Republic, Netherlands | |
Pepe Romero | 1944 | Spain | |
Petar Čulić | 1986 | Croatia | |
Petrit Ceku | 1985 | Kosovo | |
Piotr Pakhomkin | 1985 | Russia, USA | |
Rafael Andia | 1942 | France | |
Rafael Serrallet | 1971 | Spain | |
Reinbert Evers | 1949 | Germany | |
Ricardo Gallén | 1972 | Spain | |
Robert Phillips | 1953 | USA | |
Roberto Fabbri | 1964 | Italy | |
Roland Dyens | 1955–2016 | France | |
Scott Tennant | 1962 | USA | |
Sean Shibe | 1992 | United Kingdom | |
Sergio Assad | 1952 | Brazil | |
Sharon Isbin | 1956 | USA | |
Simone Iannarelli | 1970 | Italy | |
Slava Grigoryan | 1976 | Australia | |
Stanley Yates | 1958 | United Kingdom, USA | |
Stefano Grondona | 1958 | Italy | |
Štěpán Rak | 1945 | Czech Republic | |
Stephen Marchionda | 1967 | USA, Spain | |
Su Meng | 1988 | China | |
Thomas Müller-Pering | 1958 | Germany | |
Tilman Hoppstock | 1961 | Germany | |
Timo Korhonen | 1964 | Finland | |
Tony Harmon | 1958 | USA | |
Vladimir Gorbach | 1981 | Russia | |
Wang Yameng | 1981 | China | |
William Kanengiser | 1959 | USA | |
Yang Xuefei | 1977 | China | |
Yorgos Foudoulis | 1964 | Greece | |
Zoran Dukic | 1969 | Croatia | |
Miloš Karadaglić | 1983 | Montenegro |
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