IMDb > Andrés Segovia > Biography
Date of Birth
21 February 1893, Linares, Spain

Date of Death
3 June 1987, Madrid, Spain (heart attack)

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The musician most responsible for making the guitar an accepted instrument in the concert hall, he is widely considered the greatest classical guitarist of the twentieth century.

Taught guitar at Accademia Musicale Chigiana di Siena. One of his notable students was John Williams, who also became one of the world's leading classical guitarists.


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