Darr, Adam (1811-1866)Schweinfurt, Germany,His career encompassed composing for solo and chamber music, performing, and teaching. In addition, he was one of the first composers to write art music for the zither and was actively engaged in collecting and arranging folk songs from the indigenous people of the Bavarian Alps. Later, he wrote a method for the zither that became the most popular ever written for the instrument.

At the age of eighteen he began his musical activities in performance and travelled throughout Europe performing before royal courts. At the end of his tour in Russia, he remained in St. Petersburg to teach and perform and after three years returned to a position in Wurzburg. At this time he teamed-up with Frederick Brand and began a relationship as a guitar duet performing throughout Germany until his death October 22, 1866.

He composed a several pieces for guitar and a method for zithar. exist a publications of his music duets for guitars numbered from I to XII, afre (sicsic) two appear as XIV-a and XIV-b but no the XIII. Probably this situatuion is because the erroneous numbering of the works not prepared for edition. Before this duet edition no more edition of the Adam Darr music was printed.