List of classical guitarists

This is a list of classical guitarists. For a list of Women in classical guitar, see list of women classical guitarists.

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Baroque (17th & 18th century)

• Antoine Carré (France)
• Francesco Corbetta (c.1615–1681) (Italy)
• Giovanni Battista Granata (1620/1–1687) (Italy)
• Francisco Guerau (1649–1717/22) (Spain)
• Girolamo Montesardo (earyl 17th century) (Italy)
• Santiago de Murcia (Around 1682 or 1685–1732) (Spain)
• Gaspar Sanz (1640–1710) (Spain)
• Robert de Visée (c.1658–1725) (France)

19th century

• Dionisio Aguado (1784–1849) (Spain)
• Julián Arcas (1832–1882) (Spain)
• Eduard Bayer (1822–1908) (Germany)
• Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz (1805–1881) (Poland)
• Jacques Bosch (1825–1895) (Spain, France)
• José Brocá (1805–1882) (Spain)
• Matteo Carcassi (1792–1853) (Italy)
• Ferdinando Carulli (1770–1841) (Italy)
• Napoléon Coste (1805–1883) (France)
• Adam Darr (1811–1866) (Germany)
• Antoine de Lhoyer (1768–1852) (France)
• José Ferrer (Spain) (1835–1916)
• François de Fossa (1775–1849) (Spain, France)
• Mauro Giuliani (1781–1829) (Italy)
• Joseph Küffner (1776–1856) (Germany)
• Luigi Legnani (1790–1877) (Italy)
• Wenzel Thomas Matiegka (1773–1830) (Czech Republic)
• Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806–1856) (Slovakia, Austria)
• Francesco Molino (1775–1847) (Italy)
• Simon Molitor (1766–1848) (Germany, Austria)
• Ivan Padovec (1800–1873) (Croatia)
• Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840) (Italy)
• Pierre Jean Porro (1750–1831) (France)
• Giulio Regondi (1823–1872) (Switzerland, Italy, England)
• Luis T. Romero(1854–1893) (USA)
• Ernest Shand (1868–1924) (England)
• Fernando Sor (1778–1839) (Spain)
• Andrei Osipovich Sychra (1773 or 1776–1850) (Russia)
• Francisco Tárrega (1852—1909) (Spain)
• Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti (1801–1878) (Italy)

20th century

• Heinrich Albert (1870–1950) (Germany)
• Laurindo Almeida (1917–1995) (Brasil)
• María Luisa Anido (1907–1996) (Argentina, Spain)
• Agustín Barrios Mangoré (1885–1944) (Paraguay)
• Abel Carlevaro (1916–2001) (Uruguay)
• Frantz Casseus (1915–1993) (Haiti)
• Leif Christensen (1950–1988) (Denmark)
• Alirio Díaz (b. 1923) (Venezuela)
• Cayo Sila Godoy (1919–2014) (Paraguay)
• Alexandre Lagoya (1929–1999) (France)
• Antonio Lauro (1917–1986) (Venezuela)
• Miguel Llobet (1878–1938) (Spain)
• Vahdah Olcott-Bickford (1885–1980) (USA)
• Sergei Orekhov (1935–1998) (Russia)
• Stanko Prek (1915–1999) (Slovenia)
• Ida Presti (1924–1967) (France)
• Emilio Pujol (1886–1980) (Spain)
• Celedonio Romero (1913–1996) (Spain)
• Regino Sainz de la Maza (1896–1981) (Spain)
• Andrés Segovia (1893–1987) (Spain)
• José Tomás (1934–2001) (Spain)
• Luise Walker (1910–1998) (Austria)
• Narciso Yepes (1927–1997) (Spain)

Modern

• Lily Afshar (b. 1960) (Iran, USA)
• Cesar Amaro (1948–2012) (Uruguay)
• Magnus Andersson (b. 1955) (Sweden)
• Rafael Andia (b. 1942) (France)
• Sergio Assad (b. 1952) (Brazil)
• Evangelos Assimakopoulos (b. 1940) (Greece)
• Denis Azabagic (b. 1972) (Bosnia)
• Alan Banks (b. 1973) (Australia)
• Manuel Barrueco (b. 1952) (Cuba)
• Johanna Beisteiner (b. 1976) (Austria)
• Gilbert Biberian (b. 1944) (Turkey, England)
• Dušan Bogdanović (b. 1955) (Serbia)
• Detlev Bork (b. 1967) (Germany)
• Liona Boyd (b. 1949) (Canada)
• Julian Bream (b. 1933) (United Kingdom)
• Leo Brouwer (b. 1939) (Cuba)
• Frank Bungarten (b. 1958) (Germany)
• Jorge Cardoso (b. 1949) (Argentina)
• Liat Cohen (b. 1971) (Israel)
• John Couch (b. 1976) (New Zealand, Australia)
• Petar Čulić (b. 1986) (Croatia)
• Aniello Desiderio (b. 1971) (Italy)
• Carlo Domeniconi (b. 1947) (Italy)
• Juanjo Domínguez (b. 1951) (Argentina)
• Zoran Dukic (b. 1969) (Croatia)
• Benjamin Dwyer (b. 1965) (Ireland)
• Roland Dyens (b. 1955) (France)
• Richard Charlton (b. 1955) (Australia)
• Marcin Dylla (b. 1976) (Poland)
• Hucky Eichelmann (b. 1956) (Germany, Thailand)
• Gabriel Estarellas (b. 1952) (Spain)
• Reinbert Evers (b. 1949) (Germany)
• Roberto Fabbri (b. 1964) (Italy)
• Mårten Falk (b. 1973) (Sweden)
• Oliver Fartach-Naini (b. 1964) (Germany)
• John Feeley (b. 1955) (Ireland)
• Jim Ferguson (b. 1948) (USA)
• Eliot Fisk (b. 1958) (USA, Austria)
• Yorgos Foudoulis (b. 1964) (Greece)
• Ricardo Gallén (b. 1972) (Spain)
• Slava Grigoryan (b. 1976) (Australia)
• Stefano Grondona (b. 1958) (Italy)
• Nicola Hall (b. 1969) (England)
• Tony Harmon (b. 1958) (USA)
• Robin Hill (b. 1953) (England)
• Evan Hirschelman (b. 1976) (USA)
• Adam Holzman (b. 1960) (USA)
• Tilman Hoppstock (b. 1961) (Germany)
• Simone Iannarelli (b. 1970) (Italy)
• Sharon Isbin (b. 1956) (USA)
• Mattias Jacobsson (b. 1984) (Sweden)
• Ólavur Jakobsen (b. 1964) (Faroe Islands)
• Ekachai Jearakul (b. 1987) (Thailand)
• Maria Kämmerling (b. 1946) (Germany)
• William Kanengiser (b. 1959) (USA)
• Hubert Käppel (b. 1951) (Germany)
• Milos Karadaglic (b. 1983) (Montenegro)
• Peter and Zoltán Katona (b. 1968) (Hungary)
• Patrick Kearney (b. 1970) (Canada)
• Gareth Koch (b. 1962) (Australia)
• Timo Korhonen (b. 1964) (Finland)
• Nikita Koshkin (b. 1956) (Russia)
• Leon Koudelak (b. 1961) (Czech Republic, Switzerland, Thailand)
• Goran Krivokapić (b. 1979) (Serbia])
• Irina Kulikova (b. 1982) (Russia)
• Humberto Bruni Lamanna (b. 1957) (Venezuela)
• Michael Laucke (b. 1947) (Canada)
• David Leisner (b. 1953) (USA)
• Dang Ngoc Long (b. 1957) (Germany, Vietnam)
• Stephen Marchionda (b. 1967) (USA, Spain)
• Carlo Marchione (b. 1964) (Italy)
• Pablo Márquez (b. 1967) (Argentina)
• Martha Masters (b. 1972) (USA)
• Anders Miolin (b. 1961) (Sweden, Switzerland)
• Erling Møldrup (b. 1943) (Denmark)
• Gentil Montaña (b. 1942) (Colombia)
• Jorge Morel (b. 1931) (Argentina, USA)
• Thomas Müller-Pering (b. 1958) (Germany)
• Michael Nicolella (b. 1963) (USA)
• Gordon O'Brien (b. 1966) (Canada)
• Erkan Ogur (b. 1954) (Turkey)
• Elie Ossipovitch (b. 1987) (France)
• Kyuhee Park (b. 1985) (South Korea)
• Christopher Parkening (b. 1947) (USA)
• Marco Pereira (b. 1950) (Brazil)
• Robert Phillips (b. 1953) (USA)
• Álvaro Pierri (b. 1953) (Uruguay)
• Alberto Ponce (b. 1935) (Spain, France)
• Máximo Diego Pujol (b. 1957) (Argentina)
• Štěpán Rak (b. 1945) (Czech Republic)
• Charles Ramirez (b. 1953) (United Kingdom)
• Marc Regnier (b. 19??) (USA)
• Berta Rojas (b. 1966) (Paraguay)
• Angel Romero (b. 1946) (Spain)
• Pepe Romero (b. 1944) (Spain)
• David Russell (b. 1953) (Scotland)
• Flavio Sala (b. 1983) (Italy)
• Karin Schaupp (b. 1972) (Germany, Australia)
• John Schneider (b. 1950) (USA)
• María Isabel Siewers (b. 1950) (Argentina)
• Göran Söllscher (b. 1950) (Sweden)
• David Starobin (b. 1951) (USA)
• Pavel Steidl (b. 1961) (Czech Republic, Netherlands)
• David Tanenbaum (b. 1956) (USA)
• Scott Tennant (b. 1962) (USA)
• Marko Topchii (b. 1991) (Ukraine)
• Michael Tröster (b. 1956) (Germany)
• Ana Vidović (b. 1980) (Croatia)
• Jason Vieaux (b. 1973) (U.S.)
• John Williams (b. 1941) (Australia, England)
• Kazuhito Yamashita (b. 1961) (Japan)
• Yang Xuefei (b. 1977) (People's Republic of China)
• Stanley Yates (b. 1958) (England, USA)
• Andrew York (b. 1958) (USA)
• Laura Young (b. 1962) (Canada)
• Jaime Mirtenbaum Zenamon (b. 1953) (Bolivia)
• Liza Zoe (b. 1940) (Greece)

See also

• List of flamenco guitarists