Recently I have added a scan with music for classical guitar to my website www.mandoisland.de as a free download.
The book is
Guitarre-Solostücke
Leicht arrangiert
von
Josef Kellner
Heft 4
This selection of guitar music has been published around 1900 in Munich. I do only own this part 4.
On the title page you can see a young guitar player – you can see that already around 1900 litle children did play the guitar:
I did not find much about Josef Kellner, the only reference that I have found is the following short biography from the archive of German Folk-Songs:
Josef Kellner (1854-1911) war ein Münchner Zitherlehrer und Komponist, der eigene Stücke schon ab 1886 im Selbstverlag veröffentlichte. …. Josef Kellner war ein typischer Komponist von Gebrauchsmusik: Nicht nur sein Opus 7 “Deutscher Schützenfestmarsch” findet sich in zahlreichen Notenhandschriften der Zitherspieler und wurde für andere Besetzungen (Salonmusik, Blasmusik) umgeschrieben, auch Landler und andere Kompositionen aus seiner Hand sind ins Repertoire der oberbayerischen Musikanten eingegangen.
Translation: Josef Kellner (1854-1911) was a teacher for zither and a composer in Munich who published his pieces from 1886 in his own publishing company. …Josef Kellner was a typical composer of popular music. Not only his Op. 7 “Deutscher Schützenfestmarsch” is found in many manuscripts of zither players and has been arranged for other groups (salon orchestra, brass band), but as well many of his Ländlers and other compositions have been included to the repertoir of the Bavarian musicians.
Source: http://www.volksmusik-archiv.de/vma/db_soechtenauer_luggi_marsch
The pieces in this book are quite easy to play and sound typically Bavarian. If you like to play typical Bavarian folk music you should download this book and try the pieces.
Two examples:
Example 1 – Das Stille Tal – Lied ohne Worte
(The quiet valley – Song without words)
Eample 2 – D’Sennerin – Alpenlied (Song from the Alpes)
Titel page
Joh. B. Westermair, München 12 was “Hoflieferant” (purveyor to the court) for S.K.H. Prince Alfons of Bavaria and “Kammerlieferant” of S. H. Prince Ludwig of Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha.
Wikipedia Alfons von Bayern (* 24. Januar 1862 in München; † 8. Januar 1933 ebenda) : http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfons_von_Bayern
Wikipedia Ludwig von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha (* 9. August 1845 auf Schloss Eu; † 14. September 1907 in Karlsbad): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_August_von_Sachsen-Coburg_und_Gotha
The complete book is available as free download on my website www.mandoisland.de on page “Free Sheet Music”.