Of the many mysteries that surround the history of the guitar, perhaps one of the most fascinating is that which shrouds the enigmatic figure of the nineteenth-century Spanish composer Leopoldo de Urcullu. We know virtually nothing about the man or his life, though he left a legacy of some quite extraordinary music revealing a guitarist who has been unjustly and inexcusably forgotten and whose life and works deserve to be far more widely investigated, disseminated and appreciated.