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This article lists a virtually all important solo pieces in the definitive guitar repertoire. It includes churrigueresco guitar & vihuela music, but not lute music.

16th century
1536 Luis Milán (ca. 1500 - after 1561) Libro diamond state musica diamond state vihuela de mano intitulado El Maestro
1538 Luis de Narvaez (1510 - 1555) Los seis libros del Delphin diamond state música de cifra para tañer vihuela
1546 Alonso de Mudarra (ca. 1508 - 1580) Tres libros
1547 Enríquez de Valderrábano (1500 - 1557) Libro de música
1551 Adrien Le Roy (1520 - 1598) Premier livre first state tablature de guiterre
1552 Diego Pisador (1509 - 1557) Libro de Música
1553 Grégoire Brayssing (fl. Sixteenth cent.) Quart livre first state tablature delaware guiterre
1554 Miguel de Fuenllana (?1500 - 1579) Orphénica lyra

17th century
1640 Giovanni Paolo Foscarini (fl. ca. 1621 - ca. 1649) Li cinque libri della chitarra alla spagnola
1643 Francesco Corbetta (ca. 1615 - 1681) Varii capricii per la ghittara spagnuola
1646 Carlo Calvi (fl. 17th cent.) Intavolatura di chitarra, e chitarriglia
1650 Domenico Pellegrini (fl. 17th cent.) Soavi concenti di sonate musicali per la chitarra spagnuola
1659 Giovanni Battista Granata (ca. 1620 - 1687) Soavi concenti di sonate musicali per la chitarra spagnuola
1682 Robert de Visée (ca. 1650 - 1725) Livre di guittarre dédié au roy
1692 Ludovico Roncalli (?1660 - ?1720) Capricci armonici sopra la chitarra spagnola
1694 Francisco Guerau (1649 - 1722) Poema Harmónico
1697 Gaspar Sanz (1640 - 1710) Instrucciòn de Mùsica sobre la Guitarra Española

18th century
1716 François Campion (1680 - 1748) Nouvelles découvertes sur la guitare
ca. 1730 Santiago de Murcia (1682 - ?1735) Codice Saldivar no. 4

19th century
1807 Simon Molitor (1766 - 1848) Grosse Sonate, op. 7
1809 Mauro Giuliani (1781 - 1829) Grande Ouverture, op. 61
1821 Fernando Sor (1778 - 1839) Variations on the Theme of Mozart, op. 9
1825 Dionisio Aguado (1784 - 1849) Trois Rondos Brillants, op. 2
1847 Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806 - 1856) Bardenklänge, op. 13
1899 Francisco Tárrega (1852 - 1909) Recuerdos de la Alhambra

20th century
1920 Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946) Homenaje: Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy
1921 Agustín Barrios (1885 - 1944) La Catedral
1929 Manuel Ponce (1882 - 1948) ''Variations and Fugue on 'La Folia de Espana'
1932 Joaquin Turina (1882 - 1949) Sonata
1933 Frank Martin (1890 - 1974) Quatre Pièces Brèves
1952 Alexandre Tansman (1896 - 1987) Cavatina
1957 Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) Sonatina, op. Xxv, there are no. 1
1957 Ernst Krenek (1900 - 1991) Suite
1963 Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976) Nocturnal after John Dowland, op. 70
1969 Stephen Dodgson (born 1924) Fantasy-Divisions
1971 Malcolm Arnold (born 1921) Fantasy, op. 107
1971 Alan Rawsthorne (1905 - 1971) Elegy
1971 William Walton (1902 - 1983) Five Bagatelles
1976-9 Hans Werner Henze (born 1926) Royal Winter Music
1981 Peter Maxwell Davies (born 1934) Hill Runes
1983 Richard Rodney Bennett (born 1936) Sonata
1983 Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998) The Blue Guitar
1986 Roland Dyens (born 1955) Libra Sonatine
1989 Nicholas Maw (born 1935) Music of Memory
1990 Leo Brouwer (born 1939) Sonata''

21st century

Duo Con Brio
Classical Flute and Guitar Duo based in Washington, D.C. (USA) formed 1990 and are available for concerts, weddings, receptions. Kevin Vigil-guitar and Barbara Vigil-flute. Recordings, Video and RealAudio samples.

Duo46
(Cyprus and USA) Violin and Guitar. Actively commissioning, recording, and performing new classical music. MP3s available. Matt Gould, guitar and Beth Ilana Schneider-Gould, violin.

Duo Firenze
(Radford, Virginia USA)Fortepiano and Guitar ensemble performing original 18th- and 19th- century music on period instruments, in addition to more recent works on modern instruments. Robert Trent-guitar and Pamela Swenson Trent-piano. Dorian recording artists. Flash enabled.

Legg-Sanderson Duo
(UK) Mezzo Soprano and Guitar performing repertoire from the guitar's Spanish heritage, the Folk Song tradition, and lighter works from the Operatta and Music Hall. Concert works from Britain to Brazil. Susan Legg-voice and Helen Sanderson-guitar.

Ahlert-Schwab Duo
(Germany) Mandolin and Guitar ensemble performing music from the Early Baroque-period played on historical instruments to Contemporary-Works (especially composed for and dedicated to them). First Prizes: Concours International des Duos; Top prizes:Wuppertaler Barmenia Wettbewerb; and scholars of the Friedrich-Jürgen-Sellheim-Gesellschaft. Birgit Schwab-mandolýn and Daniel Ahlert-guitar.

Hermitage String Duo
(Aurora, Colorado USA) Balalaika and Guitar ensemble performing arrangements of 19th and 20th century music by Russian composers. Constantin Svirchevski-Balalaika and Gregory Nisnevich-Guitar.

Schwartz-Nisnevich Duo
(Aurora, Colorado USA) Clarinet and Guitar ensemble performs repertoire from Klezmer music (the music of East European Jews), Baroque- and Classical-periods, to contemporary music of the 20th century. Ilya Schwartz-clarinet and Gregory Nisnevich-guitar

Baxter-Ghezzi Duo
Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. Flute and Guitar ensemble performing new works. William Ghezzi-guitar and Heidi Bothfeld Baxter-flute. Recordings, and concerts.

Billington-Gonzalez Duo
(Miami, Florida USA)Flute and Guitar ensemble performing classical music ranging from transcriptions of Elizabethan music for recorder and lute to original compositions of twentieth-century music. Dr. Robert David Billington-flute aqnd Dr. Rene Gonzalez-guitar.

Biocotino-Ghidoni Duo
(Vienna)Flute and Guitar ensemble formed with the intention to perform and discover the original literature for flute and guitar especially unknown composers. Antonello Ghidoni-flute and Gianni Biocotino-guitar.




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