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Sor | Six petites pièces, Op. 32 for solo guitar
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*This title is one of 62 guitar solos by Fernando Sor available individually as a PDF download.
Sor’s Six petites pièces op. 32 were first published in Paris in 1828 with the title Six petites pièces faciles et doigtées avec soin (Six short and easy pieces, carefully fingered). They are:
- Andantino
- Waltz
- Andante pastorale
- Mazurka
- Andante
- Galop
The Mazurka op. 32 no. 4 and the Galop op. 32 no. 6 are FREE TO EVERYBODY.
Sor dedicated this collection to a pupil whom he praised in his Method, Miss Wainwright.
The waltz, mazurka and galop in this collection show his great interest in dance, particularly perhaps the galop which was absolutely up to the minute in dance terms when he published this collection in 1828, because the galop as a dance had only just been introduced to Paris ballrooms at that moment. The galop went very fast, hence its name, from a horse’s gallop. It was the ancestor not only of the polka but also of the can-can which as is well-known can sometimes go at breakneck speed.
So this Galop, like the Mazurka from this op. 32, should be played fast and very much with the dance-floor in mind, with immense liveliness. And whereas the mazurka may have been fast, this galop was surely even faster.
Sor was himself a skilled dancer. He counted many young ladies among his pupils who would certainly have been very interested in dancing. His talented young daughter Caroline who was with him in Paris at that time would certainly have gone to dances and if her father was so up-to-the-minute about dances, did he accompany her to those Paris dances?
These dances and indeed all the six pieces are intended for beginners on the guitar, as we can see from the title-page of this 1828 collection, Six petites pièces faciles et doigtées avec soin.
You can hear the Galop played by Marek Cupák here...
This edition comes from Sor’s New Complete Works for Guitar edited by Brian Jeffery.
Paperbound books are also available separately for worldwide shipment, either as individual volumes or as the complete eleven volume set:
Volume 1: guitar solos op. nos. 1 through 9 (contains Op. 6)
Volume 2: guitar solos op. nos. 10 through 16 and works without opus number
Volume 3: guitar solos op. nos. 17 through 25
Volume 4: guitar solos op. nos. 26 through 32
Volume 5: guitar solos op. nos. 33 through 43
Volume 6: guitar solos op. nos. 44 through 52
Volume 7: guitar solos op. nos. 54 through 60 and appendix: Meditación
Volume 8: seven guitar duets in score, op. nos. 34 to 53
Volume 9: six guitar duets in score, op. nos. 54 bis to 63 and the Bolero a Duo
Volume 10: the Guitar 1 parts for all of the thirteen duets
Volume 11: the Guitar 2 parts for all of the thirteen duets
All 11 Volumes: the 11 volume set
