Sophocles Papas

Who was Sophocles Papas?

Sophocles Papas was an internationally renowned classical guitar pedagogue. He began teaching classical guitar in Washington, D.C., in the 1920s, when the lack of published guitar music led him to found the Columbia Music Company. The company still publishes many arrangements and original compositions for the guitar, including a number by Papas's friend Andrés Segovia. Perhaps best known is Papas's "Method for the Classic Guitar", and his revised edition of Fernando Sor's "Sixty Short Pieces for Guitar", first published in 1963. All publications can be ordered through the Theodore Presser Company. Papas was also a regular contributor to many scholarly music journals, notably Crescendo..

Additional publications from the Columbia Music Company include:

Papas’s Bach Album: Fourteen Pieces, by J. S. Bach, arranged by Sophocles Papas.