John Frandsen, (born 1956) bears also a unique position as a composer for the guitar, as he have a very special flair for the technical subtilities of the instrument. He uses the natural ideomatic possibilities laid down in the instrument on a highly skilled and personal way, like his use of an open string as ostinato, and around it creating different rhythmic patterns that make the guitar sound in a highly natural and strong way. His harmonic ideas are always close to the fingerboards “nature”, which sometimes hardly can be said about many modern guitar composers. Frandsens tone of language is alwas his own, and one would recognized this tone immediately among hundreds of compositions. His two solo works: The 13 minute long Nature Morte from 1986 and The Painters Palette from 1989, a suite of 10 “easy pieces” each of them titled and containing a special color, grey, green, black and so on. Though not so “easy” these pieces represent a veritably gold mine for the less advanced player, wishing to try to work with “modern music”.