Originally Posted by
margora
Addenum: to the above I would add that the great problem of the mandolin during the first half of the twentieth century was that it had no Segovia to champion it. Segovia brought the classical guitar into the 20th century, initiating its transition into the musical mainstream. In the United States, classical mandolinists kept playing the same music, year after year (a good example is Munier, "Capriccio Spagnulo". It is astonishing how frequently this piece was played. It is the mandolin's version of "Asturias" or "Recuerdos"); there was little interest in engaging the wider musical world, certainly not composers.
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