Una Limosna por el Amor de Dios by Agustin Barrios Mangore
Friday, March 20, 2009
A famous piece by Barrios. Also his last composition. It shows the artist completely mature, with complete control of the tremolo technique (which he had long time ago) and composition.
There seems to be some confusion about the name of this piece, some call it this way (an alm for the love of God), "The last tremolo" and I even heard John Williams call this piece "The last song".
I had the chance to know the opinion of Luz Maria Bobadilla, a Paraguayan guitarist that contacted one of Barrios' pupils in El Salvador. This pupil said that Barrios didn't give this piece a name. He recalls that one day his teacher called him and said that he was working on a new piece, a "great tremolo". He called this piece "The Great Tremolo", and the name An Alm for the love of God was added later by other person.
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