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Hermann Hauser Guitar Foundation
"...Finally and mainly, however, it is thanks to the meeting of the Spanish virtuosos Llobet and Segovia with the Munich guitar maker Hermann Hauser (I) that the Torres guitar could become the prototype of today's concert guitar design."
(Karl Huber, the revival of artistic guitar playing around 1900, Lisardo Verlag, 1995)
Hermann Hauser guitar from 1937
Gallery 684
Hermann Hauser's guitar from 1937 was the most important concert instrument of the world-famous guitarist Andrés Segovia. He used it from 1938 to 1962 and described it in an article from 1954 as "the greatest guitar of our time". Segovia met Hermann Hauser in Munich in 1924 through the Spanish guitar virtuoso Miguel Llobet. Hauser had previously built guitars in the Munich and Viennese style, and Miguel Llobet in particular encouraged him to build instruments in the Spanish style. It is said that Hauser brought Segovia instruments for twelve years, but none of them pleased him until he tried this guitar from 1937. Only six examples of this legendary guitar exist in the world, which explains its rarity and special value.
Hermann Hauser guitar from 1940
Gallery 681
Hermann Hauser, the most important German guitar maker of the 20th century, met the virtuosos Andrés Segovia and Miguel Llobet at the beginning of the 20th century and studied their Spanish guitars, whereupon Hermann Hauser began to build instruments in the Spanish style. The 1940 guitar comes from the collection of "The Augustine Foundation" and was played by guitarist Julian Bream for much of his career as a concert guitarist.