List of classical guitarists

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## Baroque (17th and 18th centuries)

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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

## 19th century

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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

## 20th century

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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

## Contemporary

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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 | 1989 | 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  |
Ferenc Bernáth | 1981  | Hungary, Ukraine  |
Andras Csaki | 1981  | Hungary  |
Wang Yameng | 1981 | China  |
William Kanengiser | 1959 | USA  |
Yang Xuefei | 1977 | China  |
Yorgos Foudoulis | 1964 | Greece  |
Zoran Dukic | 1969 | Croatia  |
Miloš Karadaglić | 1983 | Montenegro  |

## See also

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* List of flamenco guitarists

## References

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1. ^ Ongley, Marc (March 22, 2017). Classical Guitar for Everyone. ISBN 9781544768991. Retrieved 23 June 2023.

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