Par SOLER ANTONIO. Soler (1729-83) was one of the outstanding keyboard composers of 18th-century Spain. His sonatas show great brilliance and originality, many of them influenced by the characteristic colours of Iberian popular music. This edition offers a selection of 14 of the best sonatas from the set given by the composer to Viscount Fitzwilliam in 1772, as well as editorial notes from Kenneth Gilbert. **ABRSM selected piece (Piano 2019-2020): Sonata in D minor, R. 25  / Piano Music / Recueil / Clavecin

Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783) was an Catalan polymath and composer who composed over 100 Keyboard Sonatas. Debate rages as to whether he studied under Scarlatti but he was definitely influenced by the latter’s music and contributed much to the development of European Organ Piano and Harpsichord music. Sonata por la Princesa de Asturias was one of his many works that had been lost but was found in a private collection and published in 1979 by the Spanish pianist and musicologist Antonio Baciero.

Soler (1729-83) was one of the outstanding keyboard composers of 18th-century Spain. His sonatas show great brilliance and originality, many of them influenced by the characteristic colours of Iberian popular music. This edition offers a selection of 14 of the best sonatas from the set given by the composer to Viscount Fitzwilliam in 1772, as well as editorial notes from Kenneth Gilbert. **ABRSM selected piece (Piano 2019-2020): Sonata in D minor, R. 25

Father Antonio Soler was born in Spain in 1729. Priest and composer he was also a brilliant exponent of the Harpsichord and composed more than two hundred sonatas for that instrument as well as concertos for the Organ ninemasses and sixty psalm settings part of a total output of around five hundred works.  These Three Sonatas are composed for Guitar duet. Appointed Master of the Chapel to the royalmonastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial he died there in 1783.