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Sor | Deux Themes Varies et Douze Menuets, Op. 11 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 Deux thèmes variés et douze menuets op. 11 are something of a miscellaneous collection and first appeared in Paris in 1822 or shortly before.
The twelve minuets are in an unusual style, with their abrupt changes of register, their sudden running passages, and their scordaturas. They are among the finest of Sor’s miniatures and have deservedly kept their popularity over many years. Some are certainly from Sor’s Spanish period, and it is quite possible that they all are: see Chapter 1 of my book Fernando Sor, Composer and Guitarist.
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The theme of the first set of variations is almost the same as that of a “Thème varié” which Meissonnier published separately with a different arrangement of variations and to which he gave the numbering op. 15 (it is 15c in this edition). Minuet no. 12 was also published as op. 13 no. 4.
You can hear minuet no. 6 played by Paul Bizot 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
