Alfred Cottin: Ballade du Fou. An interesting piece for three guitars from about 1910. A Tecla publication.

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Cottin is mentioned in an article: Jaime Bosch (1826-1895) and the guitar in Paris at the end of the 19th century.

If you are thinking of performing this piece with three guitars, you really need three copies. Don't fiddle with photocopies: if you like, you can get three copies, one for each guitarist, at a specially reduced price.

Alfred Cottin:

Ballade du Fou

for three guitars

With a preface by Brian Jeffery

The "Ballade du Fou" ("Ballad of the madman, or fool") is an interesting, lively, and most unusual piece for three guitars, carefully structured, which was probably composed and first published in about 1900 or shortly after. Pujol calls it preeminent among Cottin’s works. No guitar ensemble should be without it. Reprint of the original edition. Score only (3 pages); parts are not provided. But you can purchase three copies, one to be used by each guitar (see on the left here).

(Note: this is simple A4 sheet music, without cover).

TECLA 0323: 4.00 euros or 3.00 UK pounds or 5.00 US dollars

Alfred Cottin (1863-1923) is perhaps best known today as the guitarist to whom Tárrega dedicated "Recuerdos de la Alhambra". He was a Parisian, active in the musical life of that city.

Mr. Andreas Stevens tells me that the Ballade du Fou was published by the Freie Vereinigung in October 1905, and that would probably have been taken from an earlier French publication.

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