The guitar music of Maurice Ohana (1913-1992) betrays the complex interweaving of a man, his music and his world, in its most quintessential form. The nakedness of the guitar leaves no place to hide the impulses that fired his spirit and that fed his hunger for an idealised and eternal Andalusia that could be his abiding refuge. Considering himself Spanish by birth and French by adoption, Ohana was actually born in Casablanca in 1913 of a father from Gibraltar—of Sephardic descent and British citizenship—and a Spanish mother. His worldview, however, developed through an imagined notion of an Andalusia that stretched beyond his own personal world and far further afield than the more widely understood contemporary borders. A child of his time, his formative years were spent in France where he studied to be both an architect and a pianist, finally opting for the latter. During World War II he served in the British army but returned to France after the war where he developed his career in composition.