Giulio Regondi

Giulio Regondi (1822 – 6 May 1872) was a Swiss-born classical guitarist, concertinist and composer active in France and (mainly) the United Kingdom.

Giulio Regondi Lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, 1841.

Young Giulio performing at the Royal Adelphi Theatre in London on 3 September 1831

Regondi was born of a German mother and an Italian father in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1831 Fernando Sor dedicated his Souvenir d'amitié op. 46 to Regondi, a child prodigy, when the boy was just nine.

There is a reference to his appearing in London in 1831, presented as a child prodigy of the guitar.^[1] Most of Regondi's concertina music was written for the English system, however, at which he was a virtuoso,^[2] though his guitar music is probably better known. His works for solo guitar comprise a set of etudes, variations on a theme by Bellini and five larger works.

Regondi died in London.

Selected works

• Nocturne 'Rêverie' op. 19, for guitar
• Fête villageoise 'Rondo caprice' op. 20, for guitar
• Air varié No. 1 op. 21, for guitar
• Air varié No. 2 op. 22, for guitar
• Introduction and caprice op. 23, for guitar
• Ten Études, for guitar
• Feuillet d'album for guitar
• Fantasie über Mozarts Don Giovanni (Solo on Don Giovanni, partly from Thalberg's piece) for guitar (1840) rediscovered in 2007
• Air varié de l’opera de Bellini I Capuleti e i Montecchi for guitar (1845) rediscovered in 2007
• Fantasia on English Airs, for concertina and piano
• Leisure Moments (1-6), for concertina and piano (1857)
• Morceau de salon, for concertina and piano
• Recollections of Home, for concertina
• Ecce ridente il cielo, for concertina

External links

• (in Italian) Articles on Regondi by Alessandro Boris Amisich
• Giulio Regondi in Ireland by Thomas Lawrence (ref)
• The poem To Giulio Regondi. The Boy Guitarist., by Felicia Hemans was published in 1840, after the poet's death in 1835. It cannot have been written later than 1834.

Publications

• Concert Works for Guitar opp.19-23 edited by Simon Wynberg (Chanterelle Verlag)
• Air varié de l’opera de Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi edited by Stefan R. Hackl Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine (Editions Orphée)
• Giulio Regondi: Ten Etudes revised and edited by Matanaya Ophee (Editions Orphée)

Sheet music

• Rischel & Birket-Smith's Collection of guitar music 1 Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Denmark
• Boije Collection The Music Library of Sweden
• George C. Krick Collection of Guitar Music Washington University
• Free scores by Giulio Regondi at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

Images

• Images of Giulio Regondi (Royal Academy of Music)
• Giulio Regondi, "The Young Guitar player as he appeared on the 3rd of Sepr. at the Royal Adelphi Theatre."
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