Very in detail about Andrey Osipoviche Sihre read (In Russian)
 Andrey
Osipovich Sikhra was born 1773 in Vilno (the modern Vilnius) in the family
of a music teacher. In the youth he concerted as harpist, played the six-stringed
guitar. Then he was keen on the seven-stringed guitar and devoted to it
his whole life. 1801 the musician went to Moscow where he began to make
a repertoire for the seven-stringed guitar and to teach his first disciples.
Sikhra, a talented musician, kind and charming
man, was soon an idol of many followers and admires.
After the proscription of Napoleon from Russia
he went to Petersburg and remains here till the end of his life (died 1850).
Here, in Petersburg, he, a ripe musician and pedagogue, creates his school
of playing at the seven- stringed guitar. A. Sikhra was not only a talented
but also highly-educated musician. He was high valued by M. Glinka, A. Dargomyzhskiy,
A.Varlamov, A. Dyubyuk, D. Fild and many other workers of Russian culture.
The famous singer A. Petrov learned by Sikhra to play guitar. The biographical
vocabulary of Russian historical society named Sikhra "patriarch of
Russian guitarists". From his followers the most famous are S. Aksenov,
N. Alexsandrov, V. Morkov, V. Sarenko, V. Svintsov.
Sikhra wrote for the guitar pieces and exsercitions;
1802 he began to issue in Moscow "Magazine for the seven-stringed guitar".
He issued also "Exsercitions" and "Theoretical and practical
school for the seven-stringed guitar", devoted to his follower V. I.
Morkov.
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