Dionisio Aguado (1784-1849) (Spain)
Matteo Carcassi (1792-1853) (Italy)
Ferdinando Carulli (1770-1841) (Italy)
Napol�on Coste (1806-1883) (France)
Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) (Italy)
Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856) (Austrian-based, born in Slovakia.)
Luigi Legnani (1790-1877) (Italy)
Francesco Molino (1775�1847) (Italy)
Niccol� Paganini (1782-1840) (Italy)
Giulio Regondi (1822-1872) (Italy)
Fernando Sor (1778-1839) (Spain)
Francisco T�rrega (1852�1909) (Spain)
XX CENTURY
Agust�n Barrios Mangor� (1885-1944) (Paraguay)
Abel Carlevaro (1916-2001) (Uruguay)
Alirio Diaz (b. 1923)
Dimitri Fampas (1921-1996)
Alexandre Lagoya (1929-1999)
Antonio Lauro (1917-1986)
Miguel Llobet (1878-1938)
Gustavo Lopez 1920-1979
Julio Martinez Oyanguren (Uruguay)
Luigi Mozzani (1869-1943) (Italy)
Emilio Pujol (1886-1980)
Ida Presti (1924-1967)
Celedonio Romero (1913-1996)
R.Sainz de la Maza(1896-1981,Spain)
Andr�s Segovia (1893-1987, Spain)
Narciso Yepes (1927-1997)
CONTEMPORARY
list of notable classical guitarists
Odair Assad (b. 1956) (Brazil)
Sergio Assad (b. 1952) (Brazil)
Roberto Aussel (b. 1954) (Argentina)
Carlos Barbosa-Lima (b. 1944)
Manuel Barrueco (b. 1952) (Cuba)
Daniele Magli (b. 1977) (Italy)
Dusan Bogdanovic (b.1955) (Yugoslavia now Serbia/USA)
Julian Bream (b.1933) (United Kingdom)
Leo Brouwer (b. 1939) (Cuba / Spain)
Ruggero Chiesa (1933-1993) (Italy)
Carlo Domeniconi (b. 1947) (Italy)
Zoran Dukic (b. 1969) (Croatia)
Roland Dyens (b. 1955) (France)
Gabriel Estarellas (Spain)
Eva Fampas (b. 1964) (Greece)
Eliot Fisk (b. 1958) (USA / Austria)
Yorgos Foudoulis (b.1964) (Greece)
Shin-Ichi Fukuda (b.1955) (Japan)
Angelo Gilardino (b.1941) (Italy)
Oscar Ghiglia (b.1938) (Italy)
Jose Gonzalez (Sweden)
Kostas Grigoreas (b. 1957) (Greece)
Stefano Grondona (b.1958) (Italy)
Adam Holzman (b.1960)
Tilman Hoppstock (b.1961) (Germany)
Sharon Isbin (b.1956)(USA)
Daniele Magli (b. 1966) (Italy)
Norbert Kraft (b.1950) (Born in Austria naturalized Canadian)
Nikita Koshkin (b.1956) (Russia)
Christopher Parkening(b.1947) (USA)
Robert Phillips (b.1953) (USA)
Alvaro Pierri (b.1952) (Uruguay)
Alberto Ponce (b.1935) (Spain / France)
Angel Romero (b.1946)(Spain)
Pepe Romero (b.1944)(Spain)
David Russell (b.1953) (Scotland)
Stephan Schmidt (Germany/ Switzerland based)
David Starobin (b.1951) (USA)
Pavel Steidl (b.1961)(Czech Republic/Netherlands)
David Tanenbaum (b. 1956) (USA)
John Williams (b.1941) (Australia)
Kazuhito Yamashita (b.1961) (Japan)
Andrew York (b.1958) (USA)