Agustín Barrios - La Catedral for Guitar (Score video)

La Catedral's composer, Pio Agustín Barrios, was the first South American guitar performer of international stature and, although largely self-trained as composer, the author of guitar music of outstanding worth. He is credited as the first guitarist to record music by Johann Sebastian Bach. His name is given in a hybrid version of his real name and a stage name he adopted in the 1930s, which was Nitsuga Mangoré. The surname was the name of a legendary chief of the Guaraní tribe; Nitsuga was Agustín spelled backward. He even appeared on concert platforms wearing a Guaraní headdress and announcing himself as "Chief Nitsuga Mangoré, the Paganini of the guitar from the jungles of He was actually from San Juan Bautista de las Misiones, Paraguay -- certainly a rural town but not a jungle. When he was 25, he left La Paz for a week-long tour of Argentina, but had such success that he stayed away for 14 years. He traveled in Brazil, Chile, and Urugu