Sor, Ferdinand
(1780–1839)> COMPSOER
Sor, Ferdinand (17 February 1780, Barcelona; 8 July 1839, Paris), compsoer, exhibited a precocious skill with the violin and guitar, and his parents arranged for him to take lessons at an early age. After leaving school, he attended a performance of an opera by an Italian troupe visiting his native city, and he was inspired by the company to do new music for a Telemacco that he happened to find in a Barcelona library. Now aged 17, he went to Madrid and won the protection of the powerful duchess…