coste

I have to give a shout out for Napoleon Coste, the awesome French composer/guitarist who lived from 1805 to 1883. I personally don't go so much for the labels classical and romantic: though that taxonomy is not born out of irrationality it's a bit easier simply to talk about 19th century music. Having said that if any guitarists of that period assimilated the Schubertian style of "Strum und Drung" (i.e. of "Romanticism") it was Coste (along with Mertz, though Aguado, Arcas and many others circumambulated that style).

Of the many, many examples that could be mustered let me just lob this one passage out there from his Andante and Minuet op. 39.



Play through this (on any instrument). Hopefully it'll put you in a fervor to devour the rest of Coste's output, which spans the gamut from very easy to very virtuosic.

N.B. This example comes from a facsimile of the 19th century publication of the work. When reading through these editions one has to realize that less information is usually provided for the performer. A good example of this is at the E⁶₄ chord: the arpeggio is comprised of sextuplets, though no 6 appears anywhere above the appropriate groupings of notes. Also in that same measure the penultimate melodic note is D#, not D natural (the D an octave below was sharpened in the previous beat, and that holds for the entire pitch class).