Seven years later he married Maria Adelaide Robert, a noted Portuguese pianist and singer who greatly assisted him in his final years.Beginning in the summer of 1965, Pujol launched his International Courses of Guitar, Lute and Vihuela in the city of Lleida, Spain. Also at this time, Pujols first wife Matilde Cuervas died (1956). During this period he was involved in giving master classes (in 1953 he was personally invited by Andres Segovia to give classes at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana) and adjudicating at guitar competitions. He considered this book to be the pinnacle of the vihuela school and regarded Fuenllana as the final spokesman for this brief, courtly instrumental period in Spanish music.In 1946, Pujol began his guitar classes at the Lisbon Conservatory of Music, which continued through to 1969.
Prior to his death, Pujol had begun work on the largest of vihuela music books, the Orphenica Lyra by Miguel Fuenllana, published in 1554. The volume was eventually followed by volumes covering Alonso Mudarra (1949) and Valderrabano (1963).
By 1941 he was back in Spain to the end of his life, and he started preparing the volume covering the composer for vihuela, Luis de Narvaez, for the series Monumentos de la Musica Espanola (vol.
The beginning signs of World War II also prevented him from continuing his concert career.From 1935 through 1940, Pujol continued giving a few concerts and lectures as well as pursuing his research in Spain, London and Paris. During this period he partnered with the publisher Max Eschig in publishing his Bibliotheque de musique ancienne et moderne pour guitare (from 1927), resulting in numerous works for solo guitar by historical and contemporary composers. The only major interruptions in his concert travels were his marriage to Matilde Cuervas in Paris, an Andalusian flamenco guitarist, and the period of time he devoted to historical research in Paris into the instrumental predecessors of the guitar. In 1918 he undertook his first tour of South America, starting in Buenos Aires. Pujol fondly remembered his first encounter with Tarrega and in his Biography, of his teacher, he described his mestre in very endearing, romantic terms.During the war years 1914–1918 he did not travel much and mainly remained in Catalonia. At this time, Miquel Llobet was making his debut as a concert artist outside Barcelona. He began his studies with Francisco Tarrega in 1902, when he was sixteen years of age. Biography,Emili Pujol was born in the little village of Granadella just outside Lleida, Spain.