Fernando Sor (1778-1839) composed Souvenir de Russie, which has been dedicated to his beloved pupil Napoléon Coste, during the latter years of his life. Souvenir de Russie follows coherently the Sor’s compositional style of the 1830’s. His works composed around 1810 found in Mozart as well as in the Apollonian, a stylistic and formal ideal, whereas his works composed in the 1830’s show a new musical language, in which sentiments flow more easily, thanks to a formal concept less bound to the sche...