Guitar Works (Matarazzo) (2000)

Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani (27 juli 1781 8 mei 1829) was een Italiaanse gitarist, cellist, zanger en componist. Hij was een van de belangrijkste gitaarvirtuozen van de vroege 19e eeuw. "Giuliani's expression and tone in guitar playing were astonishing, and a competent critic said of him: "He vocalized his adagios to a degree impossible to be imagined by those who never heard him; his melody in slow movements was no longer like the short, unavoidable staccato of the piano, requiring profusion of harmony to cover the deficient sustension of notes, but it was invested with a character, not only sustained and penetrating, but of so earnest and pathetic a description as to make it appear the natural characteristic of the instrument. In a word, he made the instrument sing." (Philip James Bone, The guitar and mandolin, 1914)