Agustín Barrios La Catedral for Guitar ( Score video)

La Catedral s composer, Pio Agustín Barrios, was the first South American guitar performer of international stature and, although largely selftrained as composer, the author of guitar music of outstanding worth. He is credited as the first guitarist to record music by Johann Sebastian Bach. His name is given in a hybrid version of his real name and a stage name he adopted in the 1930s, which was Nitsuga Mangoré. The surname was the name of a legendary chief of the Guaraní tribe; Nitsuga was Agustín spelled backward. He even appeared on concert platforms wearing a Guaraní headdress and announcing himself as Chief Nitsuga Mangoré, the Paganini of the guitar from the jungles of He was actually from San Juan Bautista de las Misiones, Paraguay certainly a rural town but not a jungle. When he was 25, he left La Paz for a weeklong tour of Argentina, but had such success that he stayed away for 14 years. He traveled in Brazil, Chile, and Urugu