Mauro giuliani biography book

Italian composer (–)

Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani (27 July – 8 May ) was an Italian guitarist, cellist, singer, and composer. He was a leading guitarvirtuoso of the early 19th century.

Biography

Although born in Bisceglie, Giuliani's center of study was in Barletta where he moved with his brother Nicola in the first years of his life. His first instrumental training was on the cello—an instrument which he never completely abandoned—and he may have also studied the violin. Subsequently, he devoted himself to the guitar, becoming a skilled performer on it in a short time. The names of his teachers are unknown.

He married Maria Giuseppe del Monaco, and they had a child, Michael, born in Barletta in After that he was possibly in Bologna a