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Matteo Carcassi
Italian guitarist (–)
Matteo Carcassi (8 April – 16 January )[1] was an Italian guitarist and composer.
Life
Carcassi was born in Florence, Italy, and first studied the piano, but learned guitar when still a child.
He quickly gained a reputation as a virtuosoconcert guitarist.
He moved to Germany in , gaining almost immediate success. By , he was living in Paris, earning his living as a teacher of both the piano and the guitar.
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On a concert tour in Germany in , he met his friend Jean-Antoine Meissonnier for the first time. Also a well-known guitarist, Meissonnier published many of Carcassi's works in his Paris publishing house. For Meissonnier he also arranged a number of popular songs for guitar that were originally written for piano, including works by Théodore Labarre and Loïsa Puget.
From on, Carcassi spent the majority of his time in Paris. In , he performed an extremely successful series of concerts in London that earned him great fam