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Francisco González Estévez (1820-1879) was born in Corgomo, a Provinica from Oriense, Galicia, on February 5, 1820 and died in Madrid on December 29, 1879. He was a well-known 19th-century Madrid builder, contemporary of Antonio de Torres. In 1859 he was registered as a guitar maker in Madrird, the city in which he resided since the previous year.
Among the first exponents of what would later be called the School of Madrid, he built according to his style, in particular by declaring on his label that his instruments are built in "un diseño nuevo y elegante con un sistema especial" (a new and elegant project with a special system).
One of his instruments from 1867 is kept at the Musée de la Musique in Paris (E. 1041). Two instruments dated 1875 and 1878 belong to the Felix Manzanero collection in Madrid, one is in Cadiz, Mario Fernández collection and another from 1870 in Madrid in the Ramírez collection.
González was very famous in his day: he was the winner of numerous awards and medals in various exhibitions throughout his life. In 1866 he was awarded by the Sociedad Matritense of Madrid, in 1867 and 1868 at the Exposición Aragonesa of Zaragoza, in 1867 he received a bronze medal also at the universal exhibition in Paris "for two guitars and two bandurrias, which have the advantage of having a large solidity and greater resonance than the others ".
It is known that he was a teacher of both José Ramírez I and his brother Manuel Ramírez.
González's excellent reputation in his day strongly suggests that he must have been a prolific builder, yet, like Vicente Arias, few of his guitars still survive today and have often been defaced in the following years (replacement of the headstock with gears, change of the bridge, etc. .).
The guitar proposed by Istrings is still completely original in all its parts.

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