Pratten, Catharina Josefa – Free Sheet Music and TABs for Classical Guitar
About Catharina Pratten, Guitarist and Composer
Catharina Josepha Pratten (15 November 1824 – 10 October 1895) was a German guitar virtuoso, composer, and teacher, also known as Madame Sidney Pratten.
She was born Catharina Josepha Pelzer in Mülheim on 15 November 1824, the daughter of the German guitarist and music teacher Ferdinand Pelzer. Her family moved to England in 1829. On 24 September 1854, she married the English flautist Robert Sidney Pratten.
Catharina began touring in Europe from the age of eight, and by 1844 was well known in England as a composer and guitar teacher. She soon established her school – Madame Sidney Pratten’s Guitar School – and published tutorials, including Guitar School: a Book of Methods (1859) and Learning the Guitar: Simplified (1874), which advocated the use of alternative tuning in E major.
Her pupils included Queen Victoria’s daughter Beatrice, and her granddaughters Louise, Princess Royal, Victoria of Wales, and Maud of Wales. Actor, singer, guitarist, and composer Ernest Shand was also her pupil.
She composed some 250 works, most of them for solo guitar or voice and guitar.
Source: Wikipedia
Beginner-Level Sheet Music by Pratten
- Pratten, Catharina Josepha – Guitar Method – No. 39 Sicilien Mariners
- Pratten, Catharina Josepha – Guitar Method – No.31 Valse
- Pratten, Catharina Josepha – Guitar Method – No.33 Adeste Fideles (“O Come All Ye Faithful”)
- Pratten, Catharina Josepha – Guitar Method – No.43 Valse
- Pratten, Catharina Josepha – Guitar Method – No.49 My Lodgings is on the Cold Ground – Traditional Irish
Early-Intermediate Sheet Music By Pratten
- Pratten, Catharina Josepha – Guitar Method – No. 44 American Air “Mary Blane”
- Pratten, Catharina Josepha – Guitar Method – No. 45 “Il mio tesoro” from opera Don Giovanni (Mozart)
- Pratten, Catharina Josepha – Guitar Method – No. 59 Waltz
- Pratten, Catharina Josepha – Guitar Method – No. 70 March Funebre
- Pratten, Catharina Josepha – Guitar Method – No. 81 Allegretto
- Pratten, Catharina Josepha – Guitar Method – No.52 Twere Vain to Tell Thee
- Pratten, Catharina Josepha – Guitar Method – No.53 Rondo from Bellini’s Opera “Norma”
- Pratten, Catharina Josepha – Guitar Method – No.58 The Blue Bells of Scotland
Intermediate Sheet Music by Pratten
- Pratten, Catharina Josepha – Guitar Method – No. 227 Theme Original
- Pratten, Catharina Josepha – Guitar Method – No. 80 Silent, O Moyle (Irish traditional)
- Pratten, Catharina Josepha – Guitar Method – No.106 Mazurka – Exercise for Glissé
- Pratten, Catharina Josepha – Guitar Method – No.228 Spanish Dance
- Pratten, Catharina Josepha – Songs Without Words – A Lament
- Pratten, Catharina Josepha – Songs Without Words – A Lost Love
- Pratten, Catharina Josepha – Songs Without Words – Sadness (Impromptu)
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