Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani (27 July 1781 – 8 May 1829) was an Italian guitarist, cellist, singer, and composer, born in Bisceglie and raised in Barletta. Trained first on cello, he became a leading guitar virtuoso, moving to Vienna by 1806, where he mingled with composers including Beethoven and Rossini, played cello in the 1813 premiere of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, and served as the official concert artist for the 1815 Congress of Vienna celebrations. He later returned to Italy, living in Rome and then Naples, where he performed frequently in duo with his daughter Emilia, a fellow guitarist, before his death in Naples in 1829.

Widely regarded as one of the founding virtuosos of the classical guitar repertoire, Giuliani was praised by contemporaries for a sustained, singing tone that “made the instrument sing” — a hallmark of the roughly 150 opus-numbered works, including concertos, sonatas, and the celebrated Rossiniane, that form the core of early-Romantic guitar literature.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauro_Giuliani