John Williams says guitar maestro Andrés Segovia bullied students and stifled their creativity

In a new biography, John Williams says his former teacher forced pupils to play in his style and was musically snobbishAndrés Segovia is revered as one of the greatest guitarists of the 20th century. But, 25 years after his death, his reputation is being challenged by one of his former students, the guitar virtuoso John Williams, who has attacked him as a musical and social snob who stifled creativity among his students.Williams, an Australian who lives in the UK, studied with the Spanish maest...

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