El Noi de la Mare

"El Noi de la Mare"
Song
LanguageCatalan
English titleThe Child of the Mother
GenreFolk music
Songwriter(s)Traditional

El Noi de la Mare (The Child of the Mother) is a traditional Catalan Christmas song. The song was made famous outside Spain by Andrés Segovia who used to perform Miguel Llobet's guitar transcription as an encore.[1]

  1. ^ Jim Tosone Classical guitarists: conversations 2000 169 "Miguel Llobet's transcription of the Catalan folk song El Noi de la Mare is perhaps best known to guitar audiences as a favorite encore piece of Andrés Segovia. Although many artists have recorded a few of the transcriptions Llobet made.