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estebanana -> RE: Santos Hernandez La inedita (Jun. 2 2025 16:57:02)
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My personal theory based on absolutely no facts or evidence, purely anecdotal projection, is that Segovia figured German music was more ‘classical’ and accepted, while Spanish or Iberian music was not well recognized in the Anglo/Germanic world. Segovia wanted to legitimize the guitar as a concert classical instrument and choosing a German maker and concertizing a lot in Germany gained him and the guitar a lot of street cred with the German music establishment.
I think consciously or unconsciously Segovia made these moves based on a kind of internalized self dislike or uncomfortableness that he a guy from Spain was taking on the very Germanic oriented western classical canon. Santos was Spaniard and Hauser was German ( basically) and from the country of Bach.
I think Segovia’s career trajectory and ambition played a not insignificant insignificant role in spurning Santos. Then once Segovia became an institution himself it didn’t matter if he played a German guitar. Moving back to a Madrid built guitar was also a political move because Segovia could have picked up Hauser II guitars, but went with Ramirez because now that classical guitar was a legit thing, it could be romanticly linked back to Spain with less cultural bigotry against Iberian culture, which was viewed for most of the 20th century as less than mainstream Europe. Iberia as a cultural force didn’t gain traction until the 1960’s and didn’t get proper scholarship attention until the 1990’s.
For my complete non factual anecdotal opinion, Segovia distanced himself from
Spain and the civil war, take a German guitar from the land of Bach. Why? I wish I knew more, but this is what I think.
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