And since I never give up a chance for the Classical Music Geek in me to come out...
Jose, as long as you're here, maybe you could give your opinion as a musician: how well does music written for the guitar translate to the violin? Aren't the techniques used in playing one quite different from the other?
In the end, it's all just notes.
The Art of Transcription is a true musical art. When it's done poorly, well, we find ourselves wishing for the original instrumentation. However, when it's done well... It's always nice hearing something new, a new color, a new interpretation.
The Spanish and Spanish-influenced works of composers such as Albeniz, Villa-Lobos, de Falla and Ravel have been freely translated from one instrument to another - usually piano to guitar, but there have been a couple of instances of guitar to piano. And since a lot of the piano works by Albeniz were influenced by guitar patterns and rhythms, a couple of those pieces sound more at home on the guitar in some cases.
And to sort of answer your query, there is a suite of Spanish songs by Manuel de Falla that started out originally for voice and piano. However, they also exist in versions for voice and guitar. Then there are some rather famous transcriptions of the suite for violin or cello solo with piano.
*Note: The original set of songs numbered seven, "Siete Canciones Populares Espaņolas", but when when Paul Kochanski worked with de Falla to form the "Suite populaire espagnole" for violin and piano, one of the songs was dropped from the suite. Additionally, the order of the songs in the instrumental suite was/is left up to the performer.
However, even Bach freely borrowed from himself - adapting a violin concerto for a keyboard concerto - or even some other composer's melodies. Mozart did the same thing with his Oboe Concerto which he transcribed for Flute just in a different key. (The Flute Concerto is in D Major, the Oboe Concerto in C Major.) Adding to this musicological situation is that both the Oboe and Second Flute Concertos - or Concerti, if you prefer - were not discovered until this century... And it was the D Major Flute Concerto that was discovered first. So, when the parts for the Oboe Concerto were discovered, they realized that the Flute Concerto was just a re-working of the Oboe original. -But that's another class.
And I'd be remiss in not mentioning that many pieces originally written for one instrument did not become "famous" until they were "enlarged" by someone else. The classic example of this is Mussorgsky's "Pictures At An Exhbition" which was originally a set of piano pieces. Nowadays, people are more familiar with Ravel's amazing orchestration/realization of Musssorgsky's "piano miniatures".
In conclusion:
Music is only Music when it comes off the Page and goes into the Air.
