Classical Guitar Sheet Music

I continue my musical exploration of the rivers and waterways of Europe with a new piece for guitar trio entitled Cassibile, named after a river in Sicily. Its lively, spirited rhythm is inspired by t...

The overture is a musical form often found in operas. Its purpose was to prepare the audience for the performance to come. Lully favored the French overture style, consisting of a slow–fast–slow seque...

Meteōros (μετέωρος) means "suspended aloft," "elevated," or "existing in the air." The word refers to something that is not fully anchored to the earth, a condition poised between weight and lightness...

Irrévérente was first conceived on a steel-string guitar before taking its final form as a work for solo classical guitar in Baltimore during the 2020 lockdown. At that time, my wife, Alexandra Iranfa...

They are a set of six keyboard suites Bach composed around the 1720s, the time when he was writing many important instrumental works, because along with the Inventions and Sinfonias and the 48 Prelude...

This piece was commissioned by and dedicated to the Atlantic Guitar Quartet, which I had the pleasure of meeting during a summer festival at Peabody. The inspiration for the main theme came directly f...

This suite of three short pieces is written for an intermediate-level guitar orchestra. Plénitude expresses well-being and inner peace. Evocative arpeggios support a lyrical melody imbued with gentlen...

Always Good To Me is a calm, reflective piece with a gentle, lyrical melody supported by a deep, sonorous bass line and smooth arpeggiated harmonies. The steady, pulse like 4/4 rhythm and expansive ke...

Claude Debussy once said that "Music begins where words are powerless to express." These words ring especially true when I am in the process of composing for the classical guitar. The six strings poss...

Capriccio is a work that pays homage to guitar composers who have influenced me, such as Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Manuel Ponce. Not by using their themes, but rather through the harmonic language...

Even the question of inviting the great Segovia is a matter of high finance Ezra Pound 1934 The first contact with Bach for many guitarists of a certain age was filtered through the stylistic lens of...

Opening is a piece inspired by the music of Hungarian guitarist Ferenc Snétberger. I wanted to recreate the evocative, delicate, and meditative atmosphere found in this incredible musician’s performan...

Three Miniature Sketches was commissioned by James Stroud for the 2026 James Stroud Youth Competition. The work was inspired by Mr. Stroud's suggestions and is conceived as a set of three contrasting...

Few composers in the 19th-century guitar scene could rival Giulio Regondi’s creative imagination. Among the most distinctive features of his compositional style is his sophisticated harmonic language....

For a quarter of a century, I have composed nearly 600 studies for solo guitar, each time seeking to open new paths for young musicians. My modal language, nourished by the folk music of my country, h...

These trios are based on the C major diatonic scale. They are style exercises designed to explore the colors found within this scale. I wanted to add a complement to the Trios.com pieces I composed to...

It is true what is widely publicized about Tampa Bay, Florida being the lightning capital of the world. However, if you live in our neighborhood near the Manatee River in Bradenton, just a 45 minute d...

ELEGY is dedicated to a good friend of mine whom I met when I began my studies at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in the early 1980s. Geert Claessens was one of Belgium’s most talented guitarists,...

3 Blue Monologues was composed for João Luiz Rezende Lopes. The piece takes blues as its inspiration but goes on to various stylistic influences including contrapuntal techniques, extended tonality an...

Continuum: This is the revision and extension of the original version from my web site of a few years ago. My friend David Russell recently suggested that the middle section (G minor) of that original...

Modal Fantasy makes extensive use of the musical material I originally employed in my composition Bulgaresque No. 3 for saxophone and guitar. I felt that the guitar part possessed sufficient developme...