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| | ALFRED KOMAREK: Romantic Guitar - The gentle echo of restless centuries. |
 | | In fact, the guitar would have been superbly suitable to interpret the spirits of Biedermeier and Romanticism convincingly and touchingly, as these were about expressive virtuosity and spiritual transparency of the music, connected to a sensitive tonal language, rich in colour. |
 | | He met with Napoleon Coste, one of the most important French guitar composers, who was of essential importance to the shaping of the classic Romantic style. |
 | | In their compositions for guitar, Coste and Mertz continue to live on: in etudes, fantasias, rhapsodies, dances, variations, character pieces, song transcriptions and opera paraphrases. |
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