Sor, Fernando [Ferdinando Sors] (b Barcelona, 1778; d Paris, 1839). Sp. guitarist and composer. Virtuoso of guitar, teaching in Paris, London, and elsewhere. Played his ‘concertante’ for guitar and vn., va., and vc. at Phil. Soc. concert in London, 1817. Wrote many pieces for guitar, an opera, ballet Cendrillon, perf. in London 1822, syms., and str. qts.