Justin Holland: Guitar Works and Arrangements

Carnival of Venice; Sweet Memories of Thee; Home Sweet Home; Pearls of Dew

Justin Holland was an African American, born free in Norfolk, Virginia. He was the most influential and important American guitarist of the 19th century and wrote the first published and best-selling guitar method in the country. He was also a leading voice in the anti-slavery and civil rights movements. As a composer he synthesized European models and embraced popular, church and parlor songs generating a rich variety of works. A master of virtuosic variations, his arrangements are witty, elegant, and colorful, and culminate in Carnival of Venice, which shows the full range of his gifts, sweeping in breadth and dazzling in effect.

• trad.: Benedette sia la madre
• trad.: Carnival of Venice, Fantaisie
• trad.: Spanish Fandango
• trad.: The Last Rose of Summer
• Badarzewska-Baranowska: The Maiden's Prayer, Op. 4
• Beyer, F: Soirées musicales, Op. 109
• Bishop, H R: Home, Sweet Home
• Czibulka: Stephanie-Gavotte
• Holland, Justin: An Andante in C Major
• Holland, Justin: Variations on L. Mason's Nearer, My God, to Thee in E major
• Leduc, A: Pearls of Dew, Polka Mazurka
• Pease, A: Antoinette Polka Mazurka
• Pease, A: Delta Kappa Epsilon, Grand March
• Rulison: Rochester Schottisch