Talk:Asturias (Leyenda)

Tarrega transcription - fact tag

I understand the attribution of the transcription to Tarrega to be unproven, and indeed no manuscript exists. Moreover, some scholars attribute the E minor transcription to Segovia.

I'm always prepared to stand corrected so I invite those that support the assertion to provide a solid citation - and not just received wisdom.

I havn't edited Wiki in years, so if i stepped on toes, of course "undo". But a simple wording change fixes this problem. --Kipruss3 (talk) 14:52, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

I also note the article in about its 4th revision attributed the transcription (correctly in my opinion) to Segovia before a later anonymous change. RichardJ Christie 13:55, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

This is what guitarist Stanley Yates says about the matter as part of a detailed and carefully researched preface to his own transcription:

"Several items of the Albéniz's piano repertory were arranged for guitar during the composer's lifetime. The first guitarist to do so was probably Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909), a fellow Catalan and an almost exact contemporary of Albéniz. Tárrega's most illustrious student Miguel Llobet also made guitar arrangements of Albéniz's piano music, apparently with the blessing of the composer, since Llobet performed Albéniz's Granada in a concert arranged by Albéniz himself in Barcelona in 1906. However, the first successful guitar arrangement of the preludio Leyenda no doubt belongs to Andrés Segovia, though he wasn't the first guitarist to perform or arrange the piece. That distinction should probably go to the very prolific arranger Severino García Fortea. In his autobiography of the years 1893-1920, Segovia mentions that he was 'transcribing Leyenda by Albéniz, which hereto had been played from the transcription made by that hack[!], Don Severino Garcia.' Although I have not been able to determine when Segovia first began to include the piece in his recital programs, we do know that he programmed the piece for a recital in Graz, Austria in October, 1924. Although the program is lost, it is quite possible that Segovia also programmed the piece for his milestone debut in Paris, earlier that year. Segovia did not record his arrangement until much later, in 1953 (it appears on An Andres Segovia Recital on the Brunswick label, AXTL 1005), and he did not publish it until three years after that, in1956 (with Ricordi American in Buenos Aires). From this point on, a steady stream of guitar arrangements of Leyenda began to appear on the market, the majority tacitly taking Segovia's edition as their primary source."

In other words, although Tárrega was probably the first to make transcriptions of some of Albéniz's piano pieces, the first to make a transcription of this piece, Leyenda, was probably García Fortea. Fortea's transcription was very different from Segovia's, and Segovia's is the one everyone knows, and the one on which the vast majority of subsequent transcriptions are based. TheScotch (talk) 10:14, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Trivia

I added that the fiddle group "Barrage" does a version of this on the violin? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx3hJFXWNCg ^theres a link to it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.60.178.54 (talk) 19:37, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

The "Usage" section of the article is trivia and should be removed. TheScotch (talk) 10:28, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Title

A Leyenda is also a Spanish Literary genre. It's translated as a "Legend". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.99.95.246 (talk) 13:38, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Grammar

How many clauses in this article lack subjects and verbs?