International Guitar Research Archives

Llobet, Miguel Soles 

Miguel Llobet Soles was born October 16, 1878 and Died February 22, 1938 in Barcelona, Spain. He began his guitar studies with Magin Alegre at the age of eleven and decided his musical career with this instrument after hearing Antonio Jimenez Manjon in concert. Alegre arranged an appointment with Francisco Táacute;rrega and after this audition Llobet entered the Municipal Conservatory of Music where he completed his studies. At the age of twenty he began his first series of private concerts and by 1903 is launched on the concert circuit begining in Paris, France. Llobet is one of the first artists to performed extensively throughout Europe, the Americas (North, South and Central) as well as on other continents. He has produced more than 100 works for the guitar and is considered the teacher to Segovia.