25 Duos for Mandolin and Guitar 1900-1942: Italy: The Italian Style of Golden Era

The anthology presented here, comprising 25 pieces for mandolin and guitar, offers a representative snapshot of the musical repertoire circulated through mandolin and guitar periodicals that flourished until the mid-1930s. The collection highlights the interplay between mandolin and guitar across a period spanning the last two decades of the 19th century and the first forty years of the 20th-a time often regarded as the golden age of the mandolin.
The collection focuses on popular dance forms of the time - mazurkas, polkas, waltzes, tarantellas, and more - written by some of the most influential and stylistically rich figures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Alongside iconic figures such as:
- Costantino Bertucci (1841-1931)
- Giuseppe Bellenghi (1844-1902)
- Carlo Munier (1859-1911)
- Angelo Alfieri (1864-1925)
- Adolfo Sarcoli (1866-1936)
- Giuseppe Sgallari (1868-1926)
- Primo Silvestri (1871-1960)
- Giacomo Sartori (1860-1946)
- Ignazio Bitelli (1881-1956)
- Ermenegildo Carosio (1866-1928)
- Carmelo Coletta (1885-1960)
- Amadeo Amedei (1866-1935)
- Mario Bacci (1873-c.1930)
You’ll also discover rarely performed works by nearly forgotten composers such as:
Vincenzo Marchesani, Manello & Tripoli, Cassio da Velletri, Tancredi Forneris, Marino Antonelli, Alfonso Grignaschi, Aldo Benedettini, Riccardo Lombardi, Attilio Fiorone - voices of a once-flourishing mandolin culture.

Each piece in this collection has been carefully retranscribed for modern use, while preserving historical authenticity in every respect: slurs, fingerings, performance indications, effects, dedications, and other features characteristic of the period.
Conceived for performers, teachers, and scholars alike, the volume enables the rediscovery of long-neglected gems from the mandolin and guitar repertoire.