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List of important figures in the world of the Classical Guitar

C. 1500
Luis Milan (1502 - 1561 ) Spanish vihuelist
Hans Neusiedler ( 1508 - 1563 ) German composer
Luis de Narvaez ( 1510 - 1555 ) Spanish vihuelist
Antonio de Cabezon ( 1510 - 1566 ) Spanish organist and composer
Alonso de Mudarra ( c.1510 - 1570 ) Spanish vihuelist
Vicenzo Galilei ( 1520? - 1591 ) Italian composer father of Galileo
Adrian Le Roy ( c.1520 - 1598 ) French guitarist, Lutenist and composer
Luis de Guzman ( d.1525 ) Spanish vihuelist
Alonso de Mudarra ( 1546 - 1570 ) Spanish guitarist and composer
Vicente Espinel ( 1551 - 1624 ) Spanish guitarist
John Dowland ( 1563 - 1626 ) English Lutenist and composer
Juan Carlos Amat ( 1572 - 1642 ) Catalan guitar treatise
Girolamo Frescobaldi ( 1586 - 1643 ) Italian composer

C. 1600

Pedro de Madrid ( c.1600 ) Spanish blind vihuelist
Francesco Corbetta ( 1615 - 1681 ) Italian guitarist and composer
Ludovico Roncalli ( 1629 ? ) Italian baroque guitarist and composer
Gaspar Sanz ( 1640 - 1710 ) Spanish baroque guitarist and composer
Joachim Tielke ( 1641 - 1719 ) Humburg guitar-maker
Count Johann Anton Logy ( 1643 - 1721 ) Bohemian guitarist, lutenist and violinist
Henry Purcell ( 1658 - 1695 ) English composer
Rober de Visee ( 1660 - 1724 ) French baroque guitarist
Antonio Vivaldi ( 1675 - 1740 ) Italian composer
Francois Campion ( c.1680 - 1748 ) French baroque guitarist
Gorge Philip Telemann ( 1681 - 1767 ) German composer
Jean Phillip Rameau ( 1683 - 1764 ) French composer
Domenico Scarlatti ( 1685 - 1757 ) Italian composer
George Federich Handel ( 1685 - 1759 ) German composer
Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 - 1750 ) German composer
Sylvius Leopold Weiss ( 1686 - 1750 ) German baroque lutenist and composer
Michael Blake Watkin ( 1686 - 1750 ) German baroque lutenist

C . 1700

Santiago de Murcia (1714? ) Spanish baroque guitarist
Rudolphe Straube ( c.1720 - 1780 ) German composer
Frank Josept Haydn ( 1732 - 1809 ) Austrian composer
Vincenzo Panorma ( 1734 - ? ) Sicillian guitar-maker
Luigi Boccherini (1743 - 1809 ) Italian composer and cellist
Domenico Cimarosa ( 1749 - 1801 ) Italian composer
Christian Gottlieb Scheidler ( 1752 - 1815 ) German guitarist and lutenist
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 - 1791 ) Austrian composer
Mateo Albeniz ( 1760 - 1831 ) Catalan Composer
Federico Moretti ( c.1760 - 1838 ) Italian guitarist and cellist
Simon Molitor ( 1766 - 1848 ) German guitarist and composer
Filippe Gragnani ( 1767 - 1812 ) Italian guitarist and composer
Leonard von Call ( 1767 - 1815 ) Austrian guitarist and composer
Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 - 1827 ) German composer
Ferdinando Carulli ( 1770 - 1841) Italian guitarist and composer
Wenzelslaus Thomas Matiegka ( 1773 - 1830 ) Bohemian guitarist, organist and pianist
Francois de Fossa ( 1775 - 1869 ) French guitarist and composer
Don Francois Molino ( 1775 - 1847 ) Italian guitarist and violinist
Joseph Kuffner ( 1776 - 1856 ) German guitarist and composer
Johann Stauffer ( 1778 - 1853 ) Viennese guitar-maker
Fernando Sor ( 1778 - 1839 ) Spanish guitarist and composer
Mauro Giuliani ( 1781 - 1829 ) Italian guitarist and composer
Anton Diabelli ( 1781 - 1858 ) Austrian guitarist and composer
Nicolo Paganini ( 1782 - 1840 ) Italian violinist,guitarist and composer
Filippo Verini ( 1783 - 1849 ) Italian guitarist
Dionisio Aguado ( 1784 - 1849 ) Spanish guitarist and composer
Rene Lacote ( 1785 - 1855 ) Parisian guitar-maker
Carl Maria von Weber ( 1786 - 1826 ) German composer
Luigi Rinaldo Legnani ( 1790 - 1877) Italian guitarist and composer
Matteo Carcassi ( 1792 - 1853 ) Italian guitarist and composer German guitarist
G.A. Rossini ( 1792 - 1868 ) Italian composer
Franz Schubert ( 1797 - 1828 ) Austrian composer

C. 1800

Fernando Ferandiere ( 1800? - ) Spanish guitarist, composer and teacher
Jose Benedid ( c.1800 ) Cadiz guitar-maker
Ferdinand Pelzer ( 1801 - 1861 ) German guitarist and teacher
Marcelo Aurelio Zani de Ferranti ( 1802 - 1878 ) Italian guitarist and teacher
Hector Berlioz ( 1803 - 1869 ) French composer
Don A.F. Huerta ( 1804 - 1875 ) Spanish guitarist
Don Trinidad Huerta y Katura ( 1804 - 1875 ) Spanish guitarist
J. Broca ( 1805 - 1882 ) Spanish guitarist and composer
Napoleon Coste ( 1805 - 1883 ) French guitarist and composer
Johann Kaspar Mertz ( 1806 - 1856 ) Bratislavan guitarist and composer
Frederick Brand ( 1806 - 1874 ) German guitarist
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn(-Bartholdy) ( 1809 - 1847 ) German composer
Luigi Sagtini ( 1809 - ? ) Italian guitarist and composer
Sebastian Yradier ( 1809 - 1865 ) Spanish composer
Nicholas Makaroff ( 1810 - 1890 ) Russian amateur guitarist
Antonio Cano ( 1811 - 1897 ) Spanish guitarist and composer
Jean Dolphin Alard ( 1815 - 1909 ) French Composer
Antonio Jurado Torres ( 1817 - 1892 ) Spanish guitar-maker
Carl Francois Gounod ( 1818 - 1893 ) French composer
Madame Sidney Pratten ( 1821 - 1895 ) German guitarist
Giulio Regondi ( 1822 - 1872 ) Italian guitarist and composer
Jose Costa y Huga ( 1827 - 1881 ) Spanish guitarist
Manuel y Ferrer ( 1828 - 1904 ) Spanish guitarist Moved to USA
Francisco Gonzales ( 1830 - 1880 ) Founder of Madrid school of guitar-maker, taught Ramirez I
Julian de Aecas ( 1832 - 1882 ) Spanish guitarist and composer
Juan Valler ( 1835 - 1926 ) Spanish guitar and composer
Edvaed Hagerup Grieg ( 1843 - 1907 ) Norwegian composer
Vincente Arias ( 1843 - 1912 ) Spanish guitar-maker
Juan Parga ( 1843 - 1899 ) Spanish guitarist and teacher
Oscar Chilesotti ( 1848 - 1916 ) Italian flutist, violinist and guitarist
Francisco Tarrega ( 1852 - 1909 ) Spanish guitarist and composer
Paco Lucena ( 1855 - 1903 ) Spanish Flamenco guitarist
Pascual Roch ( 1860 - 1921 ) Spanish guitarist, teacher and guitar-maker
William Foden ( 1860 - 1947 ) U.S. guitarist and teacher
Isaac Albeniz ( 1860 - 1909 ) Spanish Composer
Fernando Mestre ( 1860 - 1930 ) Spanish guitarist
Rafael Marin ( 1862- ? ) Spanish guitarist
F. Santiago Marin ( b.1862 - ? ) Spanish (Granada) guitar-maker
Herbert J. Ellis ( 1865 - 1903 ) English guitarist and composer
Antonio Manjon ( 1866 - 1919 ) blind Spanish guitarist , composer and teacher
Enrique Granados ( 1867 - 1916 ) Spanish composer
Frank Mot Harrison ( 1867 - 1945 ) English guitarist and teacher
Ernest Shand ( 1868 - 1924 ) English guitarist
Javier Molina ( 1868 - 1956 ) Flamenco guitarist
Luigi Mozzani ( 1869 - 1943 ) Italian guitarist and composer
Albert Roussel ( 1869 - 1937 ) Frence composer
Heinrich Albert ( 1870 - 1950 ) German guitarist composer and teacher
George Krick ( 1871 - 1962 ) US guitarist and teacher
Joaquin Malats ( 1872 - 1912 ) Spanish pianist and composer
Philip James Bone ( 1873 - 1964 ) English guitarist and Author of " The Guitar and Mandolin " (1914)
Santos Hernandez ( 1873 - 1942 ) Spanish guitar-maker
Francisco Simplicio ( 1874 - 1932 ) Spanish guitar-maker
Alfonso Broqua ( 1876 - 1947) Uruguayan composer
Manuel de Falla ( 1876 - 1946 ) Spanish composer
Alfonso Broqua ( 1876 - 1947 ) Uruguayan composer
Miguel Llobet ( 1878 - 1938 ) Catalan guitarist and composer
Daniel Fortea ( 1878 - 1953 ) Spanish guitarist
Antonio Sinopoli ( 1878 - ? ) Argentine guitarist
Julio Salvador Sagreras ( 1879 - 1942 ) Argentine guitarist and composer
Ramon Montoya ( 1880 - 1949 ) Spanish flamenco guitarist
Domingo Esteso ( 1881 - 1937 ) Spanish guitar-maker
Joaquin Turina ( 1882 - 1949 ) Spanish composer
Bartolome Calatayud ( 1882 - 1973 ) Spanish guitarist and composer
Dr. Boris Perott ( 1882 - 1957 ) Russian guitarist
Hermann Hauser ( 1882 - 1952 ) German guitarist and guitar-maker
Joan Manen ( 1883 - ? ) Spanish Violinist and composer
Joao Pernambuco ( Joao Toexeira Giumaraes ) ( 1883 - 1947 ) Brazilian guitarist and composer
Vahda Olcott Bickford ( 1885 - 1980 ) American guitarist
Agustin pio Barrios Mangore ( 1885 - 1944 ) Paraguayan guitarist and composer
Manuel Maria Ponce ( 1886 - 1944 ) Mexican composer
Domingo Prat ( 1886 - 1944 ) Spanish guitarist
Emilio Pujol ( 1886 - 1980 ) Spanish guitarist , composer and teacher
Andre Verdier ( 1886 - 1957 ) French guitarist
Vincente Emilio Sojo ( 1887 - 1974 ) Venezuelan composer
Heitor Villa-Lobos ( 1887 - 1959 ) Brazilian composer and cellist
Matilde Cuervas ( 1888 - 1956 ) Spanish guitarist
Raul Borges ( 1888 - 1967 ) Venezuelan guitarist and composer
Frank Martin ( 1890 - 1974 ) Swiss composer
Francisco Calleja ( b.1891 - ) Spanish guitarist
Federico Moreno Torroba ( b.1891 - 1982 ) Spanish composer
Juan Parras ( b.1891 - ) Spanish guitarist and teacher
Darius Milhaud ( 1892 - 1974 ) French composer
Wilfrid Appleby ( 1892 - 1987 ) English Guitarist
Frederico Mompou ( 1893 - ) Catalan composer
Torres Andres Segovia ( 1893 - 1987 ) Spanish guitarist
Sophocles Papas ( 1893 - 1985 ) Greek guitarist and teacher
Jean Absil ( 1893 - 1974 ) Belgian Composer
Perico el del Lunar ( Pedro de Valle ) ( 1894 - 1964 ) Flamenco guitarist
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco ( 1895 - 1968 ) Italian composer
Manuel Hernandez ( 1895 - 1975 ) Spanish guitar-maker
Paul Hindemith ( 1895 - 1963 ) German composer
Gascon Leon Vicente ( 1896 - ) Spanish guitarist
Regino Sainz de la Maza ( 1896 - 1981 ) Spanish guitarist and composer
Fracisco Mignone ( b.1897 ) Brazilian composer
Victoriano Aguado ( b.1897 ) Spanish guitar-maker
Ignacio Fleta ( 1897 - 1977 ) Spanish guitar-maker
Josefina Robledo ( b.1897 ) Spanish guitarist
Alexandre Tansman ( b.1897 ) Polish composer
Regino Saint de la Maza ( 1897 - 1981 ) Spanish guitarist and composer
Vladimir Bobri ( 1898 - 1986 ) Ukrainian artist and amateur guitarist - moved to U.S.A.
Salvador Bacarisse ( 1898 - 1963 ) Spanish composerr
Carlos Chavez ( 1899 - 1978 ) Mexican composer and pianist
Francis Poulence ( 1899 - 1963 ) French composer and pianist

C. 1900 -

Mario Maccaferri ( b.1900 ) Italian guitarist
Pablo Escobar ( b.1900 ) Paraguayan guitarist
Albert Augustine ( 1900 - 1967 ) Danish pioneer of the nylon guitar string
Adele Kramer ( b.1900 ) Viennese guitarist
Ernst Krenek ( b.1900 ) Austrian composer
Hans Erich Apostel ( b.1901 ) German composer
Giuseppe Rosetta ( b.1901 ) Italian composer
Henri Sauguet ( b.1901 ) French composer
Isaias Savio ( 1902 - 1977 ) Uruguayan guitarist , teacher and composer
Joaquin Rodrigo ( b.1901 - 1999 ) Spanish composer
Sir William Turner Walton ( b.1902 - 1983 ) British composer
Sir Lennox Berkeley ( b.1903 - 1989 ) English composer
Vincente Asencio ( 1903 - 1978 ) Valencian composer
Hilding Hallnas ( b.1903 ) Swede composer
Marcelo Barbero ( 1904 - 1956 ) Spanish guitar-maker
Goffredo Petrassi ( b.1904 ) Italian composer
Giudo Santorsola ( b.1904 ) Italian composer and cellist
Julio Martinez Oyanguren ( 1905 - 1973 ) Uruguayan guitarist
Robert Bouchet ( b.1905 ) French guitar-maker
Andre Jolivet ( 1905 - 1974 ) Frence composer
Julio Martinez Oyanguren ( b.1905 ) Uruguayan guitarist
Alan Rawsthorne ( 1905 - 1971 ) English composer
Elizabeth Lutyens ( b. 1906 ) English composer
Radames Gnattali ( 1906 - 1988 ) Brazilian composer
Maria Luisa Anido ( 1907 - 1996 ) Argentine guitarist
Camargo Guarnieri ( b.1907 ) Brazilian composer
Edgar Monch ( 1907 - 1977 ) German guitar-maker
Ivor Mairants (b.1908 ) Polish guitarist
A. Yupanqui ( b.1909 ) Argentinan guitarist
Olga Coelho ( b.1909 ) Brazilian guitarist
Ivan Putilin ( b.1909 ) Russian guitarist
Karl Scheit ( b.1909 ) Viennese guitarist and teacher
Terry Usher ( 1909 - 1969 ) English guitarist
Alfred Uhl ( b.1909 ) Austrian composer
Louies Walker ( b.1910 ) Austrian guitarist and teacher
Len Williams ( 1910 - 1987 ) English jazz guitarist father of John Williams
Harald Petersen ( 1910 - 1969 ) Danish guitar-maker
Vicente Gomez ( b.1911 ) Spanish guitarist
Manuel de Chica ( b.1911 ) Spain (Granada) guitar-maker
Jose de Azpiazu ( 1912 - 1986 ) Spanish guitarist , composer and teacher
Alexander Bellow ( 1912 - 1976 ) Rusian - U.S.A.
Carlos Guastavino ( b.1912 ) Argentine composer
Benjamin Britten ( 1913 - 1976 ) English composer
Bruno Betinelli ( b.1913 ) Italian composer
George Love ( b.1913 ) British guitar-maker
Charalambos Etmektosglou ( b.1913 ) Greek guitarist and teacher
Melchor de Marchena ( 1913 - ? ) Flamenco guitarist
Luis Maravilla ( b.1914 ) Flamenco guitarist
Mauricio Ohana ( b.1914 ) French composer
Richard Pick ( b.1915 ) U.S. guitarist
Humphrey Searle ( b.1915 ) English composer
Denis ApIvor ( b.1916 ) Welsh composer
Albert Harris ( b.1916 ) English guitarist and composer
Alberto Ginastera ( 1916 - 1983 ) Argentine composer
Laurindo Almeida ( b.1917 ) Brazilian bossa-nova guitarist
Jose Rey de la Torre ( b.1917 ) Cuban guitarist
Antonio Lauro ( 1917 - 1986 ) Venezuelan guitarist , composer and teacher
Reginald Smith Brindle ( b.1917 ) English composer
Rey de la Torre ( b.1917 ) Cuban guitarist
Agustin Castellon Sabicas ( b.1917 ) Gypsy guitarist
Reginald Smith-Brindle ( b.1917 ) English composer
Abel Carlevaro ( b.1918 ) Uruguayan guitarist and composer
Celedonio Romero ( b.1918 ) Spanish guitarist and composer
Peter Sensier ( 1918 - 1977 ) English guitarist
John W. Duarte ( b.1919 ) English guitarist and composer
Ronoel Simoes ( b.1919 ) Brazilian guitarist
Eduardo Grau ( b.1919 ) Catalan composer
Aaran Shearer ( b.1919 ) US guitarist and teacher
Garcia Jesus Beleza ( b.1920 ) Madrid guitar-maker
Peter Racine Fricker ( b.1920 ) British composer
Bruno Mederna ( 1920 - 1927 ) Italian composer and conductor
Dimitri Fampas ( b.1921) Greek guitarist and composer
Albert Valdes Blain ( b.1921 ) Cuban guitarist
Roland Valdes Blain ( b.1921 ) Cuban guitarist
Malcolm Arnold ( b.1921 ) English composer
Astor Piazzolla ( 1921 - 1992 ) Argentine composer
Roland Valdes Blain ( b.1922 ) Cuban guitarist
Luis Bonfa ( b.1922 ) Contemporary Brazilian guitarist and composer
Tom Eastwood ( b.1922 ) English composer
Pepe Martinez ( b.1922 ) Spanish Flamenco guitarist
John M. Gilbert ( 1922 - ) US guitar-maker
Alirio Diaz ( b.1923 ) Venezuelan guitarist
Eduardo Falu ( b.1923 ) Argentine guitarist,singer,composer
Ida Presti ( 1924 - 1967 ) French guitarist
Eli Kassner ( b.1924 ) Austrian guitarist
Stephen Dodgson ( b.1924 ) English composer
Axel Borup-Jorgensen ( b.1924 ) composer
Robert Vidal ( b.1925 ) French organiser
Charlie Byrd ( b.1925 ) US guitarist
Pierre Boulez ( b.1925 ) French composer
Colin Cooper ( b.1926 ) English guitarist
Roland Harker ( 1926 - 1977 ) British guitarist
Masaru Kohno ( 1926 - 1998 ) Japanese guitar-maker
Hans Werner Henze ( b.1926 ) German composer
Graciela Pomponixo ( b.1926 ) Argentine guitarist
Arthur Wills ( b.1926 ) English organist and composer
R. Tarrago ( b.1927 ) Spanish guitarist
Narcisco Yepes ( b.1927 ) Spanish guitarist
Renata Tarrago ( b.1927 ) Spanish guitarist
Narciso Yepes ( b.1927 - ) Spanish guitarist
Roberto Lara ( 1927 - 1988 ) Argentine guitarist
Wilfred Josephs ( b.1927 ) English composer
Manuel Rodriguez ( b.1927 ) Spanish guitar-maker
Thomas Wilson ( b.1927 ) Austrian guitarist
Oscar Caceres ( b.1928 ) Uruguayan guitarist and teacher
Dik Visser ( b.1928 ) Dutch guitarist
Martinez Jorge Remigio Zarate ( b.1928 ) Argentine guitarist and composer
Manuel Contreras ( 1928 - ) Spanish guitar-maker
Alexandre Lagoya ( 1929 - 1999 ) Egyptian guitarist
Vaclav Kucera ( b.1929 ) Czech composer
Manuel Lopez Ramos ( b.1929 ) Maxican guitarist
Frederick Noad ( 1929 - ) Belgian guitarist moved to USA
Andre Previn ( b.1929 ) German pianist and conductor
Hector Garcia ( b.1930 ) Cuban guitarist
Toru Takemitsu ( b.1930 ) Japanese composer
Java Obrovska ( 1930 - 1987 ) Czech composer
George Clinton ( 1931 - 1991 ) English guitarist
Jorge Morel ( b.1931 ) Argentine guitarist and composer
Rifat Esenbel ( b.1931 ) Flamenco guitarist
Archangel Fernandez ( b.1931 ) Madrid guitar-maker
Konrad Ragossnig ( b.1932 ) Austrian guitarist and teacher
Patrick Bashford ( b.1932 ) Poland Guitarist and teacher
Jose Luis Gonzalez ( b.1932 ) Spanish guitarist
Konrad Ragossnig ( b.1932 ) Austrian guitarist and teacher
Carey Blyton ( b.1932 ) English composer
Laszlo Szendrey-Karper ( 1932 - 1991 ) Hungarian guitarist
Paulino Bernabe ( b.1932 ) Spanish (Madrid) guitar-maker
Ronald Charles Purcell ( b.1932 ) US guitarist and teacher
Jose Luis Romanillos (b.1932 ) Spanish guitar-maker, resident in England
Laslo Szendry-Karper ( b.1932 ) Hungarian guitarist
Julian Bream ( b.1933 ) English guitarist and Lutenist
Siegfried Behrend ( 1933 - 1990 ) German guitarist and composer
Michel Dintrich ( b.1933 ) French guitarist
Akinobu Matsuda ( b.1933 ) Japanese guitarist
Santiago Navascues ( b.1933 ) Spanish guitarist
Joseph Bacon ( b.1933 ) American guitarist
Leonardo Balada ( b.1933 ) Catalan composer
Ruggiero Chiesa ( b.1933 ) Italian guitarist , teacher and editor
Jose Luis Gonzales ( b.1933 ) Spanish guitarist and composer
Antonio Marin Montero ( b.1933 ) Granadan guitar-maker
Antonio Ruiz Pipo ( b.1933 ) Spanish composer
Anton Garcia Abril ( b.1933 ) Spanish composer
Jose Thomas ( b.1934 ) Spanish guitarist , teacher
Martin Fleeson ( b.1934 ) English guitar-maker
Oliver Hunt ( b.1934 ) English guitarist , composer and teacher
John Mack ( b.1934 ) English guitar-maker
Peter Maxwell-Davies ( b.1934 ) English composer
David Rubio ( b.1934 ) English guitar-maker
Jesus Ortega ( b.1935 ) Cuban guitarist
Alberto Ponce ( b.1935 ) Spanish guitarist and teacher
Rodrigo de Zayas ( b,1935 ) Spanish guitarist and musicologist
Carmen Marina ( 1936 ) Spanish guitarist
Bunyan Webb ( 1936 - 1978 ) US guitarist
Richard Rodney Bennett ( b.1936 ) English composer
Hector Quine ( b.1936 ) English guitarist , composer and teacher
Dieter Hopf ( 1936 - ) German guitar-maker
Irma Costanzo ( b.1937 ) Argentine guitarist
Baden Powell ( b.1937 ) Brazilian guitarist and composer
David Bedford ( b.1937 ) English composer
Felix Manzanero ( b.1937 ) Madrid guitar-maker
Juan Serrano ( b.1937 ) Codoba flamenco guitarist
Oscar Ghiglia ( b.1938 ) Italian guitarist and teacher
Betho Davezac ( b.1938 ) Uruguayan guitarist
Gordon Crosskey ( b.1938 ) English guitarist and teacher
Manuel Cubedo ( b.1938 ) Spanish guitarist
Brian Jeffery ( b.1938 ) English guitarist and historian
Richard Stoker ( b.1938 ) English composer
Leo Brouwer ( b.1939 ) Cuban composer and guitarist
Josef Holecek ( b.1939 ) Czech guitarist
Barbara Polasek ( b.1939 ) German guitarist
Milan Zelenka ( b.1939 ) Czech guitarist
Manuel Lopez Bellido ( b.1939 ) Granadan guitar-maker
Lance Bosman ( b.1939 ) English composer and Author of " Harmony for Guitar "
Michael Fink ( b.1939 ) US guitarist, composer
John McCabe ( b.1939 ) English composer
Marlos Nobre ( b.1939 ) Brazilian composer
Barbara Polasek ( b.1939 ) Czech guitarist
Milan Zelenka ( b.1939 ) Czech guitarist and teacher
Turibio Santos ( b.1940 ) Brazilian guitarist
Paul Cox ( b.1940 ) US guitarist and Teacher
Jame Tylor ( b.1940 ) US player of early plucked instruments
Poitre Panin ( b.1940 ) Russian guitarist and composer
Paul Fisher ( b.1940 ) British guitar-maker
Graham Wade ( b.1940 ) British guitarist and teacher
Anthea Gifford ( b.1940 ) English guitarist
Mario Abril ( b.1940 ) Cuban guitarist
John Williams ( b.1941) Australian guitarist
Rene Bartoli ( b.1941 ) French guitarist
Vincenzo Macaluso ( b.1941 ) U.S. guitarist
Leo Witoszynskyj ( b.1941 ) Austrian guitarist and teacher
Rene Bartoli ( b.1941 ) French guitarist
Charles Duncan ( b.1941 ) US guitarist
Angelo Gilardino ( b.1941 ) Italian guitarist and teacher
Jurgen Libbert ( b.1941 ) Polish guitarist and teacher
Jeffery Van ( b.1941 ) US guitarist
Paul Fischer ( b.1941 ) English guitar-maker
Miguel Alcazar ( b.1942 ) Mexican guitarist
Guy Lukowski ( b.1942 ) Belgian guitarist
Maria Livia Sao Marcos ( b.1942 ) Brazilian guitarist
Rose Andresier ( b.1942 ) English guitarist
Eric Hill ( b.1942 ) English guitarist
Paco Pena ( b.1942 ) Flamenco guitarist
Maria Sao Marcos (b.1942 ) Brazilian guitarist and teacher
Joseph Urshalmi ( b.1942 ) Iranian guitarist
Turibio Santos ( b.1943 ) Brazilian guitarist
Manuel E. Diaz ( b.1943 ) Spanish (Granada) guitar-maker
Alice Artzt ( b.1943 ) U.S. guitarist
Ernesto Bitetti ( b.1943 ) Argentinian guitarist
Harvey Hope ( b.1943 ) English guitarist
Jean-Pierre Jumez ( b.1943 ) French guitarist
Timothy Walker ( b.1943 ) South African guitarist
Guillermo Fierens ( b.1943 ) Argentine guitarist
Ian Gammie ( b.1943 ) English guitarist
Jose Lopez Bellido ( b.1943 ) Spanish(Granada) guitar maker
Thomas Fitzsimmons Heck ( b.1943 ) US guitarist and musicologist
Juan Martin ( b.1943 ) English flamenco guitarist
John Zaradin ( b.1943 ) English guitarist and composer
Carlos Barbosa-Lima ( b.1944 ) Brazilian guitarist
Baltazar Benitez ( b.1944 ) Uruguayan guitarist
Gilbert Biberian ( b,1944 ) Turkey, guitarist, composer and teacher
Ole Halen ( b.1944 ) Finnish guitarist
Chris Kilvington ( b.1944 ) English guitarist
Pepe Romero ( b.1944 ) Spanish guitarist
George Sakellariou ( b.1944 ) Greek guitarist
Julian Byzantine ( b.1945 ) English guitarist
Stepan Rak ( b.1945 ) Ukraine guitarist
Neil Smith ( b.1945 ) Lancashire guitarist
Mary Criswick ( b.1945 ) Bristish guitarist
John Edwards ( b.1945 ) English guitarist
Simon Wynberg ( b.1955 ) Scotish guitarist
Ernesto Cordero ( b.1946 ) U.S. guitarist
Maria Kammerling ( b.1946 ) German guitarist and composer
Angel Romero ( b.1946 ) Spanish guitarist
Michael Lorimer ( b.1946 ) U.S. guitarist and teacher
Christopher Parkening ( b.1947 ) U.S guitarist
Daniel Benko ( b.1947 ) Hungarian guitarist
Carlos Domeniconi ( b.1947 ) Italian guitarist and composer
Frederi Hand ( b.1947 ) U.S. guitarist and composer
MIkio Hoshido ( b.1947 ) Japanese guitarist
Barry Mason ( b.1947 ) English guitarist
John Mills ( b.1947 ) English guitarist
Edward Jones ( b.1947 ) Welsh guitar-maker
Greg Smallman ( b.1947 ) Australian guitar-maker
Paco de Lucia ( Francisco Sanchez Gomez ) ( b.1947 ) Spanish Flamenco guitarist
Wolfgang Lendle ( b.1948 ) German guitarist
Jean Abreu ( b.1948 ) Brazilian guitarist
Sonja Prunbauer ( b.1948 ) German guitarist
Erik Stenstadvold ( b.1948 ) Norwegian guitarist
Ichiro Suzuki ( b.1948 ) Japanese guitarist
Norihiko Watanabe ( b.1948 ) Japanese guitarist
Raymond Burley ( b.1948 ) English Guitarist
Julian Byzantine ( b.1948 ) English guitarist
Alan Torok ( b.1948 ) Austrian guitarist and composer
Sergio Abreu ( b.1948 ) Brazilian guitarist
Carlos Bonell ( b.1949 ) English guitarist
Robert Brightmore ( b.1949 ) English guitarist
Jorge Cardoso ( b.1949 ) Argentine guitarist and composer
Reinbert Evers ( b.1949 ) German guitarist
Gerald Garcia ( b.1949 ) Hong Kong
Ricardo Fernandez Iznaola ( b.1949 ) Cuban guitarist
Robert Feuerstein ( b.1949 ) Rumanian guitarist
Colin Downs ( b.1949 ) English guitarist and composer
Anthony J. Smith ( b.1949 ) English guitar-maker
Leif Christensen ( 1950 - 1988 ) Dane guitarist
Arnaud Dumond ( b.1950 ) France guitarist
Liona Boyd ( b.1950 ) England-Canada
Dean Kamei ( b.1950 ) U.S. guitarist
Norbert Kraft ( b.1950 ) Austrian guitarist
Philippe Lemaigre ( b.1950 ) Belgian guitarist
Vladimir Mikulka ( b.1950 ) Czech guitarist
Alfonso Moreno ( b.1950 ) Mexican guitarist
Martin Myslivecek ( b.1950 ) Czech guitarist
Stephen Funk Pearson ( b.1950 ) U.S. guitarist
Michel Sadanowsky ( b.1950 ) French guitarist
John Schneider ( b.1950 ) US guitarist
Maria Isabel Siewers ( b.1950 ) Argentine guitarist
Evangelos Boudinis ( b.1950 ) Greek guitarist and teacher
Laurie Randolph ( b.1950 ) US guitarist
Diego Blanco ( b.1951 ) Spanish ( Mallorcan ) guitarist
Josep Henriquez ( b.1951 ) Spanish guitarist
Hubert Kappel ( b.1951 ) German guitarist
Francis Kleynjans ( b.1951 ) French guitarist
David Starobin ( b.1951 ) US guitarist
Timothy Kain ( b.1951 ) Australian guitarist
Forbes Henderson ( b.1951 ) English guitarist
Roberto Olabarietta ( b.1951 ) Spanish guitarist
Helen Kalamuniak ( b.1951 ) English guitarist
John Taylor ( b.1951 ) English guitarist
Manuel Barrueco ( b.1952 ) Cuban guitarist
Gabriel Estarellas ( b.1952 ) Spanish guitarist
Eduardo Fernandez ( b.1952 ) Uruguayan guitarist
Horst Klee ( b.1952 ) German guitarist
Douglas Niedt ( b.1952 ) U.S. guitarist
Jukka Savijoki ( b.1952 ) Finnish guitarist
Seppo Siirala ( b.1952 ) Finnish guitarist
David Leisner ( b.1953 ) U.S. guitarist
Dagoberto Linhares ( b.1953 ) Brazilian guitarist
Alvaro Pierrin ( b.1953 ) Uruguayan guitarist
David Russell ( b.1953 ) Scottish guitarist
Gabriel Estarellas ( b.1953 ) Spanish (Mallorca) guitarist
Cheryl Grice ( b.1953 ) English guitarist
Dagaberto Linhares ( b.1953 ) Brazilian guitarist
Charles Ramirez ( b.1953 ) Gibraltan guitarist
Roberto Aussel ( b.1954 ) Argentine guitarist
Eliot Fisk ( b.1954 ) U.S. guitarist
Alexander Frauchi ( b.1954 ) U.S guitarist
Arne Brattland ( b.1955 ) Norwegian guitarist
John Holmquist ( b.1955 ) U.S. guitarist
Roland Dyens ( b.1955 ) Tunisian guitarist
Goran Sollscher ( b.1955 ) Swede guitarist
Benjamin Verdery ( b.1955 ) US guitarist
Gregg Nestor ( b.1955 ) US guitarist
Paul Gragory ( b.1956 ) English guitarist , cellist and composer
Sharon Isbin ( b.1956 ) U.S guitarist
Nikita Koshkin ( b.1956 ) U.S. guitarist
Wulfin Lieske ( b.1956 ) German guitarist
David Tanenbaum ( b.1956 ) US guitarist
Michael Troster ( b.1956 ) German guitarist
Eduardo Castanera ( b.1956 ) Argentine guitarist
Costas Cotsiolis ( b.1957 ) Greek guitarist
Eleftheria Kotzia ( b.1957 ) Greek guitarist
Michael Newman ( b.1957 ) U.S. guitarist
Marco de Santi ( b.1957 ) Italian guitarist
Raphaella Smits ( b.1957 ) Belgian guitarist
Lynne Gangbar ( b.1957 ) Canadian guitarist
Jukka Savijoki ( b,1957 ) Finnish guitarist
Stefano Grondona ( b.1958 ) Italian guitarist
Tsuyoshi Horiuchi ( b.1958 ) Japanese guitarist
Victor Pelligrini ( b.1958 ) Argentine guitarist
Deborah Mariotti ( b.1959 ) Swiss guitarist
Kazuhito Yamashita ( b.1961 ) Japanese guitarist
Rafael Rabello ( b.1962 ) Brazilian guitarist
Istvan Romer ( b.1962 ) Yugoslav guitarist
Paul Galbraith ( b.1964 ) Scottish guitarist
Marcfelo Kayath ( b.1964 ) Brazilian guitarist
Nicola Hall ( b.1969 ) English guitarist