page_title: Fernando Sor
section_title: Didactic manual
hierarchical_section_title: Fernando Sor / Works / Didactic manual
caption_attribution_description: English: Méthode pour la guitare = Guitarre-Schule, Bonn&#160;: N. Simrock, 1831.
context_page_description: Fernando Sor was a Spanish guitarist and composer. Best known for writing solo 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.
  Partly because Sor was himself such a guitar virtuoso—contemporaries considered him to be the best in the world—he made a point of writing didactic music for players of that instrument of all levels. His Twelve Studies Op. 6, the Twelve Studies Op. 29, the Progressive Lessons Op. 31, and the Very Easy Exercises Op. 35 have been widely played for two hundred years and are regularly reprinted. On the other hand, some of Sor's music, not least his popular Introduction and Variations on Mozart's "Das klinget so herrlich" Op. 9, is fiendishly difficult.
  Unlike modern classical guitar players, Sor used the smaller, slimmer "Baroque" and "Romantic" guitars predating today's familiar Torres instrument. He used the ring finger of his plucking hand and eschewed the use of nails on that hand.
context_section_description: Sor's Méthode pour la Guitare was first published in Paris in 1830 and translated into English by A Merrick in 1832 under the title Method for the Spanish Guitar.
caption: The original cover of Sor's Méthode pour la Guitare, published in Paris in 1830.
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