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This directory documents music written, arranged, or recorded for the eight-string Brahms Guitar.
The present version is an initial verified selection and will expand through research and evidence-backed contributions.
Entries are classified by their documented status. A published edition, an unpublished manuscript and a recorded arrangement are different kinds of evidence and are not presented as interchangeable.
Dates refer to composition, revision, publication, premiere or recording only when that relationship is clear. Material that is reported but not sufficiently verified remains in an internal review list and is not displayed here.
Rafael Marino Arcaro — COR-DE-ROSA-BOTO
Solo eight-string Brahms Guitar. Composed 2022; revised 2024–25. Published by New Music Folders Editions. World premiere: Vicenza, 21 March 2025, Giacomo Copiello. Composer's website. Listen here.
Giorgio Colombo Taccani — Vigilia
Solo eight-string Brahms Guitar, 2022. Published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni. Composer's website.
Franz Schubert / Giacomo Copiello — LIEDER, Volumes 1 and 2
Arrangements of 6 songs by F. Schubert for solo eight-string Brahms Guitar, 2023. Published by Bergmann Edition. Shop here.
Elvira Muratore — Apeiron
Unpublished score. Solo eight-string Brahms Guitar. Composed in July 2022. World premiere: Vicenza, November 2024, Giacomo Copiello. Watch here.
J. S. Bach / Redmond O’Toole — Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003
Arrangement for Brahms Guitar, 2004. Developed as part of O’Toole’s Master’s thesis at the Dublin Institute of Technology. Available at the local library.
Impressions Ibériques
Arrangements for Brahms Guitar and harp, 2025. Music by Claude Debussy, Manuel de Falla and Isaac Albéniz; developed by Giacomo Copiello with harpist Letizia Pellanda as part of a Master’s thesis in Chamber Music at the Conservatorio di Musica Arrigo Pedrollo in Vicenza. Available at the local library. Watch here.
Paul Galbraith — official discography, 1996–2015
Solo and chamber recordings that established the instrument’s early recorded identity across Bach, Haydn, Brahms and other repertoire. Official Website.
Giacomo Copiello — LIEDER
CD. Stradivarius, 2023. Schubert songs transcriptions for eight-string Brahms Guitar. Listen here.
Joseph Ehrenpreis — New Music with Brahms Guitar
Audio recording, 2020, new contemporary works for the instrument. Listen here.
Future entries will document composer, title, year, instrumentation, status, publisher or manuscript location, premiere, performer, recording and supporting sources where these details are available.
The archive particularly welcomes information about editions currently in print, manuscripts held by composers or performers, works whose scoring is not explicit, and recordings absent from commercial catalogues.
To propose an addition, use the Corrections and Contributions page. Please include a catalogue record, score title page, official recording, programme, institutional page or other evidence that can be checked.
The initial directory is based on published editions, recording catalogues, concert documentation and doctoral research. Full references appear in Bibliography and Sources.