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Mårten Oskar Falk (born 1973) is a Swedish classical guitarist. He studied at the Conservatory of the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris under Alberto Ponce. Falk has toured in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Holland, Russia, Ukraine, Japan, Canada, Peru, Chile, Argentina. He has collaborated with composers from many countries, such as Angelo Gilardino and Sven-David Sandström and has made over 100 world premieres of new music. Mårten Falk has released twelve CDs, including seven solo albums with the company dB Productions, including ''The Electric Guitar Experience'' (2004). Falk is also adept at playing the
vihuela The vihuela () is a 15th-century fretted plucked Spanish string instrument, shaped like a guitar (figure-of-eight form offering strength and portability) but tuned like a lute. It was used in 15th- and 16th-century Spain as the equivalent of t ...
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baroque guitar The Baroque guitar (–1750) is a string instrument with five Course (music), courses of gut strings and moveable gut frets. The first (highest pitched) course sometimes used only a single string. History The Baroque guitar replaced the lute as ...
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lute A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck (music), neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lu ...
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