Giulio Regondi Giulio Regondi

Giulio Regondi (1823 – 6 May 1872) was a Swiss-born classical guitarist, concertinist and composer active in France and (mainly) the United Kingdom.

Regondi was born of a German mother and an Italian father in Geneva, Switzerland. A child prodigy, Fernando Sor dedicated his Souvenir d'amitié op. 46 to Regondi in 1831, when the boy was just nine.

There is a reference to his appearing in London in 1831, presented as a child prodigy of the guitar. Most of Regondi's concertina music was written for the English system, however, at which he was a virtuoso, though his guitar music is probably better known. His works for solo guitar comprise a set of etudes, variations on a theme by Bellini and five larger works.

Regondi died in London.

Selected works

• Nocturne 'Rêverie' op. 19, for guitar
• Fête villageoise 'Rondo caprice' op. 20, for guitar
• Air varié No. 1 op. 21, for guitar
• Air varié No. 2 op. 22, for guitar
• Introduction and caprice op. 23, for guitar
• Ten Études, for guitar
• Feuillet d'album for guitar
• Fantasie über Mozarts Don Giovanni"(Solo on Don Giovanni, partly from Thalberg's piece) for guitar (1840) rediscovered in 2007
• Air varié de l’opera de Bellini I Capuleti e i Montecchi" for guitar (1845) rediscovered in 2007
• Fantasia on English Airs, for concertina and piano
• Leisure Moments (1-6), for concertina and piano (1857)
• Morceau de salon, for concertina and piano
• Recollections of Home, for concertina
• Ecce ridente il cielo, for concertina