Carlo Carfagna

Infobox musical artist
Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Instrument = Guitar
Name = Carlo Carfagna


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Born = birth year and age|1940
Guarcino, Italy
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Genre = Classical music
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Years_active = 1960–present
URL = [http://www.carlocarfagna.it/ www.carlocarfagna.it]

Carlo Carfagna (born in Guarcino, Italy, 1940) is an Italian classical guitarist, author of many musical publications.

Publications

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Here are listed only the main works by Carlo Carfagna.

* Integral edition in three volumes of Fernando Sor's Studies for guitar.
* Integral edition in three volumes of Francisco Tárrega's works.
* Revision of the four lute suites by Johann Sebastian Bach.
* Revision of the four sonatas by Sor

He published with the following editors: Bèrben (Ancona), Ricordi (Milan), Music Inc. (Dallas), Nicolai (Rome), Domani Musica (Rome), Erom (Rome).

Essays

* Profilo storico della chitarra, (with Alberto Caprani), Bèrben, Ancona, 1966
* Dizionario Chitarristico Italiano (with Mario Gangi), Bèrben, Ancona, 1968
* Liuteria Classica Italiana, chitarre del XIX e XX secolo, (with Giovanni Antonioni), Camerata Musicale Barese, 1985
* Chitarra - Storia e Immagini (with Michele Greci), Fratelli Palombi Editori, Roma, 2000
* Il libretto per musica e Metastasio, Erom, Rome, 2005
* Aspetti della Chitarra nell'Ottocento, Erom, Rome, 2006
* He written together with Mario Gangi the article Guitar in the Musical Encyclopedia edited by Fratelli Fabbri Editori
* He written many essays on general of guitar-specific newspapers, (even small treatises on History of art)
* He cowritten with Gian Paolo Chiti a little multimedia opera, "Matrona quaedam".