Madame Sidney Pratten (Catharina Josepha Pelzer)<\/h2>\nBiography<\/h3>\n
Madame Sidney Pratten (born Catharina Josepha Pelzer, 1821 \u2013 1895) was a German guitarist and composer. She married Robert Sidney Pratten, an accomplished flautist, and took on his name, as was the custom during the time.<\/p>\n
Pratten’s father, Ferdinand Pelzer, was also an accomplished guitarist and was the editor of the famous nineteenth-century magazine Giulianiad<\/em>, in honor of Mauro Giuliani. Pratten thus learned guitar at a very early age from her father and as young as seven years old played duets with another young guitarist who was almost her exact contemporary, Giulio Regondi.<\/p>\n Pratten lived most of her life in England and became a well-respected performer there. There she also composed many pieces for the guitar, mostly character pieces (or “songs without words”). Among these charming pieces are Sehnsucht and Weary<\/em>, Sadness<\/em>, Eventide<\/em>, and Forgotten<\/em>.<\/p>\n However, she also wrote a lengthy and valuable pedagogical volume called The Guitar School<\/em>, which includes over 200 examples from other composers, progressive lessons, songs in various keys, diagrams of the fingerboard, and so on. Later she released a separate edition for a guitar tuned to E Major (with the third string tuned up to G#) called Instructions for the Guitar Tuned in E Major<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Download Sheet Music Here<\/a><\/p>\n Eventide (PDF download)<\/p>\n Eventide (Emily Shaw, guitar) (video)<\/a><\/p>\n Sadness (PDF download)<\/p>\n Sadness (Annette Kruisbrink, guitar) (video)<\/a><\/p>\n Sehnsucht and Weary (PDF download)<\/p>\n Sehunsucht and Weary (Heike Matthiesen) (video)<\/a><\/p>\n Forgotten: Impromptu (PDF download)<\/p>\n Forgotten: Impromptu (Damien Kelly, guitar) (video)<\/a><\/p>\n Carnival de Venice (Heike Matthiesen, guitar) (video)<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Madame](\"https:\/\/www.classicalguitarcorner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/madame-sidney-pratten-sheet-music.jpg\" "\\"Madame")
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Songs without Words:<\/h3>\n
Impromptus:<\/h3>\n
Carnival de Venice:<\/h3>\n
Spanish Dance:<\/h3>\n