Tárrega entered the Madrid Royal Conservatory in 1874, under the sponsorship of a wealthy merchant named Antonio Canesa. For a time, he played with other musicians at local engagements to earn money, but eventually he returned home to help his family.
By his early teens, Tárrega was proficient on both the piano and the guitar. His father looked for him and brought him back home once more, but he ran away a third time, again to Valencia. Three years later, in 1865, he ran away again, this time to Valencia where he joined a family of gypsies.
He was soon found and brought back to his father, who had to make great sacrifices to advance his son's musical education. Although Tárrega was only ten years old, he ran away and tried to start a musical career on his own by playing in coffee houses and restaurants in Barcelona. However, Tárrega had to stop his lessons shortly after, when Arcas left for a concert tour abroad. The guitar was viewed as an instrument to accompany singers, while the piano was quite popular throughout Europe. Tárrega's father agreed, but insisted that his son take piano lessons as well. In 1862, concert guitarist Julián Arcas, on tour in Castellón, heard the young Tárrega play and advised Tárrega's father to allow Francisco to come to Barcelona to study with him. Both his first music teachers, Eugeni Ruiz and Manuel González, were blind. Fearing that his son might lose his sight completely, his father moved the family to Castellón de la Plana to attend music classes because as a musician he would be able to earn a living, even if blind. Francisco's nickname as a child was "Quiquet".Īs a child, he ran away from his nanny and fell into an irrigation channel and injured his eyes. It is said that Francisco's father played flamenco and several other music styles on his guitar when his father was away working as a watchman at the Convent of San Pascual, Francisco would take his father's guitar and attempt to make the beautiful sounds he had heard. Tárrega was born on 21 November 1852, in Villarreal, Province of Castellón, Spain. Problems playing this file? See media help.
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