14 Facts About Mauro Giuliani

Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani was an Italian guitarist, cellist, singer, and composer.

Mauro Giuliani was a leading guitar virtuoso of the early 19th century.

Mauro Giuliani married Maria Giuseppe del Monaco, and they had a child, Michael, born in Barletta in 1801.

Mauro Giuliani achieved significant success and became a musical celebrity, equal to the best of the many instrumentalists and composers who were active in the Austrian capital city at the beginning of the 19th century.

Mauro Giuliani defined a new role for the guitar in the context of European music.

Mauro Giuliani was acquainted with the highest figures of Austrian society and with notable composers such as Rossini and Beethoven, and cooperated with the best active concert musicians in Vienna.

Mauro Giuliani worked mostly with the publisher Artaria, who published many of his works for guitar, but had dealings with other local publishers who spread his compositions across Europe.

In 1819 Mauro Giuliani left Vienna, mainly for financial reasons: he expected to make financial profit on a concert tour through Bohemia and Bavaria.

Mauro Giuliani returned to Italy, spending time in Trieste and Venice, and finally settled in Rome.

Mauro Giuliani was educated at the nunnery L'adorazione del Gesu from 1821 to 1826, together with Giuliani's first illegitimate daughter Maria Willmuth.

Mauro Giuliani had a remarkable ability to weave a melody into a passage with musical effect while remaining true to the idiom of the instrument.

Mauro Giuliani composed extremely challenging pieces for solo guitar as well as works for orchestra and Guitar-Violin and Guitar-Flute duos.

Mauro Giuliani transcribed many symphonic works, both for solo guitar and guitar duo.

Mauro Giuliani is the only guitarist of the first generation of classical guitar who did not publish a method.