Yes I am aware that he based some of his pieces on flamenco music, his first wife was by the way a flamenco guitarist as I was able to read from wikipedia, and also him being a spanish guy who plays guitar and writes romantic music in national style, so it is not very surprising. I can't really put my finger on it, it is just my subjective feel at the moment. I totally agree that every music uses idioms and cliches to a certain degree, but I think he got a little bit too much of them in one spot at same time. Maybe I am wrong, but I feel he put too much of guitarstic idioms and that somehow dampens the musical development of the piece. I think they are overworked, I perceieve them so. I was actually thinking about why I don't really like those more often played pieces by Pujol like Tango, Tonadilla, Gujira etc. Do you have some favourite piece by Pujol (don't misstake him wth Maximo Diego Pujol please) to recommend? What is your opinion on Pujols music?Д®dit: Of course I have played El Ebejorro, but that is probably standard piece for everyone learning guitar. I still don't know if I like those more often played pieces (Guajira, Seguidilla, etc) they seem to be just to much of guitaristic cliches over and over each other, and extremely difficult to play, but he certainly seem worth of further exploration. It was still filled with some guitaristic clichГ©s but, it is actually quite nice little piece, not too short and pretty jolly in character, yet not too long and overdone, and those cliches actually gave it 'spanish' character just enough to make it fun. It was actually refreshing to hear a new piece. But recently I stumbled on a piece by Pujol, his study in B-moll, from a set of 'advanced' etudes, and I immidiately liked that piece. It seems on moments rather artificial and in other moments rather too hardcore 'guitaristic' in nature on cost of musicality. I have known for Emilio Pujol since I started to play guitar, but I never really liked his music.

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