Matanya ophee biography
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When he went over to the French side, he was part of the expeditionary force to Spain in 1823, and he became a commanding officer of the region of Barcelona. I cannot say I knew him as well, but we definitely did meet. His indefatigable energy and meticulous intellect thus metamorphosed from a life of extreme adventure to the very different world of music.
But when I eventually met Matanya, I was impressed by his charm and composure. So how to pass a moral judgment on someone’s activities and then listen to his delightful guitar music? He translated the works of Lamartine into Italian. This was an article titled “The Typhoon from the East” by Larry Snitzler, published in the Guitar Review (issue No.
60, Winter 1985). Untiring internet forums’ polemist? As for his performance: please rest assured that whatever he notated in the printed edition, is precisely what he does live on stage. So this has not changed at all over the centuries. I am told it is not nice to speak ill of the dead. Giuliani produced a huge amount of material for commercial purposes.
Patronage was already very much on the way out. After Matanya’s passing in 2017 all of his domain names were transferred to Carl Fischer Music/Theodore Presser resulting in the articles becoming inaccessible. They were people with many of the same concerns as ours.
The implication of that is the great debate we’re having about how to interpret music of the past, particularly that which is found in printed editions.
As a publisher—he founded Editions Oprhée in 1978 and was active with the company until his death—he issued around 200 diverse publications, including guitar solos of many eras, Russian music in abundance, guitar duos, trios, and quartets, guitar-and-voice, chamber music, concertos, lute books, methods (such as the four-volume School of Guitar by Emilio Pujol), and other seminal texts (such as The Segovia-Ponce Letters).
It does not seem to matter to these hate mongers that the young boy who so astounded the music world in the early 80s is no longer a boy, but a father to three beautiful children, a devoted husband who is more interested in promoting the music of his wife, the noted Japanese composer Keiko Fujiie, then in trying to push the envelope of guitar technique to where it had never been before.
The Pages of his magazine are an ample source for his colorful malevolence.
As for Yamashita, his career was indeed going great, in spite of Clinton’s dire predictions. We stayed overnight and in the morning we had breakfast together. That was the last vestige of royal patronage of the arts in Europe. But it’s still the same person.
Before that, he was a professional soldier, but when he left Spain, he had to earn a living and he chose to do it as a musician, by giving concerts, by teaching—not only the guitar, but mainly teaching the piano and singing—and by publishing and selling music.