Generation of '27

Lorca wrote three poems about the guitar. I quote below The six strings from the subsection Graphic of the petenera from Poem of the cante jondo [1921]. Lorca studied piano for six years with a renowned music teacher and composer of Granada, Antonio Segura Mesa who also taught Ángel Barrios. Antonio Segura Mesa was very excited about Lorca’s talent and encouraged him to pursue a music career.

Federico García Lorca dedicated Six Caprices (Seis Caprichos) to his guitarist friend Regino Sáinz de la Maza. The title Six Caprices insinuates the six strings of the guitar and the poem Riddle of the guitar (Adivinanza de la guitarra) is one of the three poems that Lorca chose the guitar as the main theme. El Polifemo de Oro (Golden Polyphemus), a fantastic work of a British composer Reginald Smith Brindle, was inspired by this poem.

This essay is about Falla’s only guitar work, Homenaje pour Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy, his important involvement with the cultural movement in Granada, and the friendship with the poet Federico García Lorca, French composer Claude Debussy, and Ángel Barrios, the guitarist/composer of Granada.

The Generation of ’27 is a fascinating cultural movement of modern Spain and Maestro Regino Sáinz de la Maza also had an important role in it. This essay is about the Maestro Regino Sáinz de la Maza and Generation of ’27 movement from guitarists' point of view.

The guitarist Regino Sáinz de la Maza and the poet Federico García Lorca met each other at the “Residencia de Estudiantes” in March 1920. Their solid friendship that lasted for 16 years, until the assassination of this brightest poet in 1936, contributed immensely to the development of both music and poetry. Two months later, Sáinz de la Maza gave a recital at the Hotel Palace in Granada and Lorca wrote a passionate review for a local newspaper “Gaceta del Sur”.

The Duende has nothing to do with social status, nationality, or education, neither is it possible to acquire by studying or training. It is something very human that we all have in our blood, but it hardly appears. Lorca tells us that true art will only happen when the three elements, wisdom, inspiration and the Duende are united.