Artur Paredes (10 May 1899 – 20 December 1980) was a

Portuguese guitar The Portuguese guitar or Portuguese guitarra ( pt, guitarra portuguesa, ) is a plucked string instrument with twelve steel strings, strung in six course (music), courses of two strings. It is one of the few musical instruments that still uses wat ...

player in the city of

Coimbra Coimbra (, also , , or ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population of the municipality at the 2011 census was 143,397, in an area of . The fourth-largest urban area in Portugal after Lisbon, Porto Metropolitan Area, Porto, and Bra ...

. He was the natural son of Gonçalo Rodrigues Paredes and Maria do Céu."Artur Paredes."
Museu Do Fado
March 2009. Accessed October 18, 2018. Much of today's Coimbra guitar features can be traced back to his contact with local luthiers. His son

Carlos Paredes Carlos Paredes ComSE (; 16 February 1925 – 23 July 2004) was a virtuoso Portuguese guitar player and composer. He is regarded as one of the greatest players of Portuguese guitar of all-time. Born in Coimbra, Portugal, in a family with a ...

was a virtuoso and attained popularity, becoming the most internationally known

player. He entered into the dominion of classical music with his compositions for the Portuguese guitar, beyond the traditional use of the instrument in

fado Fado (; "destiny, fate") is a music genre that can be traced to the 1820s in Lisbon, Portugal, but probably has much earlier origins. Fado historian and scholar Rui Vieira Nery states that "the only reliable information on the history of fado was ...

musicianship.

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