Mertz's guitar music, unlike that of most of his
contemporaries, followed the pianistic models of
Chopin, Mendelssohn, Schubert and Schumann, rather than
the classical models of Mozart and Haydn (as did Sor
and Aguado), or the bel canto style of Rossini (as did
Giuliani). Though the date of his birth indicates that
that was the logical influence, since Sor was born in
1778, Aguado in 1784 and Giuliani in 1781 while Mertz
in 1806, a difference of about 25 years.
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