Popular Classical Pieces Arranged for Guitar
- Instrument: solo guitar
- Composers: Bach, Beethoven, Boccherini, de Visée (guitar arrangement: Christoph Dalitz)
In arranging these classical "hits" for guitar, it was not my goal to transcribe every note of the originals. I have rather aimed at comfortably playable versions that sound like native guitar music.
All arrangements are available from the German publisher Notendownload. By clicking on the small triangle in the upper left corner of the music preview, you can even hear me playing the beginning of the pieces.
Menuet (Luigi Boccherini)
The famous menuet from Boccherini's string quintett op. 11 no. 5 (G 275). As the lead voice wanders through the parts, I have extracted the melody from the five parts and have added a guitaristic accompaniment. The entire arrangement can be played without a single barree stop!
- Music and tablature edition (PDF file) from "Notendownload" (German)
Badinerie (Johann Sebastian Bach)
The famous final movement (also known as "Badinage") from the B-minor suite (BWV 1067) in an effectful and comfortably playable guitar arrangement. The entire arrangement can be played without a barree stop!
- Music and tablature edition (PDF file) from "Notendownload" (German)
- YouTube video, played on a historic 19th century guitar
Two menuets for Anna Magdalena Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Two meneuts from "Anna Magdalena Bach's notebook" (BWV Anhang 114 & 115). In the original, these pieces are not directly connected, but it seems to me that they were planned as a twin pair of Menuet and Trio.
- Sheet music edition (PDF file) from "Notendownload" (German)
For Elise (Ludwig van Beethoven)
This is an arrangement of the complete piece, and not only of the Rondo part, as in most other arrangements of this piece on the internet. In my arrangement, even the two Couplets are comfortably playable.
- Sheet music edition (PDF file) from "Notendownload" (German)
- Tablature edition (PDF file) from "Notendownload" (German)
The Entertainer (Scott Joplin)
The best known Ragtime. The original is for piano, but it sounds as convincing on the guitar. This arrangement is of moderate difficulty.
- Music edition (PDF file) from "Notendownload" (German)
- Tablature edition (PDF file) from "Notendownload" (German)
La Montfermeil (Robert de Visée)
An arragement that is based on a baroque lute manuscript from the 17th century. Despite the completely different tunings of baroque lute and guitar, the piece works surprisingly perfect on the guitar in the same key.
- Music and tablature edition (PDF file) from "Notendownload" (German)