Jeffery, Brian (Nombre de persona)

Brian Jeffery is the author of the biography Fernando Sor Composer and Guitarist. In 2013 he published a new edition of the Arte de tocar la guitarra española (1799) of Fernando Ferandiere, this time with an introduction of forty pages (compared with the four-page introduction in his original modern edition of that work in 1977) incorporating much new information. In 2017 he published a new book, España de la guerra: the Spanish political and military songs of the war in Spain 1808 to 1814, a subject which is new and unexplored territory because these songs have not been studied before. The book is not especially about the guitar, but the principal composer of these political songs is Fernando Sor. In 2003 the annual guitar festival at Alessandria in Italy awarded him their Golden Guitar for his work in that field. In 2012 the Guitar Foundation of America appointed him to its Hall of Fame. He is the owner and director of the publishing firm Tecla Editions (www.tecla.com) which specializes in editions of guitar music at a high level of research and presentation. https://guitarconsortium.org/members/