𝙍𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 ♫ 𝘕𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘰 𝘠𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘴 ♪ guitar • Italy 1971 

As I've said before, I don't give a rat's culo about what some classical guitar snakes have to say about the subject of Yepes's authorship of this popular but not great music. Their opinions are not tantamount to evidence of anything but prejudice, ego, and dishonesty. Likewise, no rat's tuchas for anyone who stupidly -- so, so stupidly -- refers to a scan or *photocopy* as if that were evidence that this music existed before 1934. (This is like creationists [lost in a verbal hall of mirrors] holding up their books as 'evidence' that this planet is 6000 years old.) There are proper ways to date and verify things and a very simple way to settle the matter: If you claim to have evidence, then produce those objects (not representations of them) and let us have them verified by scientific dating and other verification methods, carried out by independent experts in those particular fields. It's a reasonable request. But no one has ever risen to this challenge and no one ever will. All they will do is what they always do, yap-yap-yap like little...dogs. The same goes for people who've claimed that they have late-nineteenth-century recordings (despite this music being of a twentieth-, not nineteenth-century idiom). Until someone risks fraud charges by putting their money where their mouths are and produce an artefact for testing, the most reasonable explanation remains that the young Narciso, being a gifted child, 'composed' this music on his guitar as a present for his mother (as he said in a couple of interviews, here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KrNl5WSXbPo.html and here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TWJfF0XegAw.html ), that he performed it in public, and that either this catchy and very simple (juvenile) theme was recreated by ear by a guitarist who heard it in the '30s, or that later opportunists took the 'anonymity' of it as a green light to cook up 'originals' from '1925' or '1913' or even the '19th century' because there was money to be made after it became famous in 1952. Now, it could be asked, Why didn't Yepes just identify himself as the composer of this Romance when he included it on the soundtrack of Jeux interdits in 1952? That's very simple. It's in keeping with the person. Although he composed several things, not only for the guitar, it made him "blush" (as he says here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-inepbELIVaE.html ) to perform his own music because he didn't consider himself a Composer (with a capital C). I understand this sentiment very well, as someone who myself wrote music at a young age; Fritz is the same, though he has composed a substantial amount of music; he doesn't like to be referred to as "a composer." Look into the psychological studies; this is a normal response for gifted people, who tend more towards the Impostor Syndrome than the Dunning-Kruger Effect. (It's always the ones who can barely spell "IQ test" that refer to themselves as "stable genius[es]," just like the classical guitar aficionados who say that they've arrived at an "ultra-discerning point of aural precision" even though they can hardly produce "a few scratchy sounds.") So, when you consider the context -- a gifted person who has done far greater things as a performer, embarrassed to be overly-associated with a famous but not great piece of music, who never imagined that this piece of juvenilia would still be remembered and performed decades after he had played it on a film score -- there's nothing strange about the fact that he didn't 'out' himself as its composer until people started fabricating 'originals.' Even then, he only pointed out (without any ego or avarice) that it's a strange thing, that he came up with the piece on his guitar when he was a boy, though it's of no importance to him, and now it's being attributed to people all over the historical and geographical map, to a guy in Argentina, to a guy in Mexico, to this person no one has ever heard of, to that person... Strange. What's particularly absurd about these 'long-lost originals' is that somehow the young Narciso would have had to know one of them (but which? the ancient wax cylinder? the long-out-of-print publication? because there have been so many mutually-exclusive 'originals') and that at a time when almost nobody knew this music, before it became world famous and ubiquitous through Yepes's playing on the soundtrack of Forbidden Games (1952). And, who (content in their verbal hall of mirrors) ever bothers to *think* to ask, how exactly did a peasant boy from the Spanish countryside (8km from the nearest village), who had to be taken by donkey for music lessons...how did he of all people, in the middle of nowhere, somehow know an unknown piece by a nobody like "Rubira," that is, by a figure that almost seems to have been fabricated? It's not a reasonable story. It's too convoluted, too contrived. It doesn't survive Occam's razor. And why, in the first place, are there so many different, inconsistent stories about this music's authorship (now by "Sor" and then by "Rubira" or perhaps "Gomez" or maybe...), *if* they stem from legitimate, disinterested scholarship? Yes, history gets re-written as evidence is discovered. Yes, there are opposing voices in history -- and silenced voices, which historians have a responsibility to sound out. But it doesn't get rewritten in five different directions unless there is some fraud involved somewhere. Bnd, of course -- of course -- it's the same fork-tongued hypocrites who *would* at once insist on rewriting Yepes's authorship of this popular piece, even though it's ancient history, *and* insist that historical evidence concerning the dishonest reception of Yepes's recordings should not be allowed to see the light of day 'because' that's ancient history. Always a double standard. Say whatever will get them ahead in the short term. (And, of course -- of course -- when you look into who these people are, they do usually tend to be Retrumplicans or Tories and we all know -- the rest of us -- that "alternative facts" [i.e., lies] and flagrant hypocrisy are their M.O.)

NO TE PIDO QUE ME LO MEJORES, SÓLO QUE ME LO IGUALES👏👏

Uniquely individual. 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Que maravillla!!, toca el alma su interpretación...

Mesmerizing 🌞👍🙏🌝☀️🌝🌝

What a master. Pure delicacy. Thanks for sharing

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El Gran Yepes

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Mo more words för it......😊

Why was he using a 10 string guitar while playing only the 6 strings?