Albeniz biography
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Isaac Albéniz
Isaac Albéniz was a Spanish pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms. Many of his pieces such as Asturias (Leyenda), Granada, Sevilla, Cádiz, Córdoba, Cataluí±a, and the Tango in D are among the most important pieces for classical guitar.
Albéniz was a child prodigy who first performed at the age of four. His concert career began at the age of nine when his father toured both Isaac and his sister, Clementina, throughout northern Spain. In 1876, after a short stay at the Leipzig Conservatory, he went to study at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. In 1883 he met the teacher and composer Felip Pedrell, who inspired him to write Spanish music such as the Chants d'Espagne. The first movement (Prelude) of that suite, later retitled after the composer's death as Asturias (Leyenda), is probably most famous today as part of the classical guitar repertoire, even though it was originally composed for piano. (Many of A
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The Biography
of Isaac Albéniz
1860-1909
Early years in Spain
This Spanish pianist and composer was born in Camprodón, Spain on the 29th of the fifth month of 1860, his father was a customs official Ángel Albéniz and his mother's name was Dolors Pascual. The young Albéniz was a child prodigy who first performed for the Barcelona public at the age of four. Three years later he was refused admission to the Paris Conservatoire on the grounds that he was too young, this after he had passed the entrance examination for piano. At age nine he, along with his sister Clementina, embarked on a concert tour throughout northern Spain, all administered by his father. After many attempts to run away from home, Isaac successfully stowed away in a ship bound for Buenos Aires in 1872, from where he made his way to United States of America via the island nation of Cuba - This story is disputed by some who claim he traveled to Cuba with his father the customs official , perhaps it was fro
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Isaac Albéniz
Spanish composer (1860–1909)
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Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (Spanish pronunciation:[iˈsakalˈβeniθ]; 29 May 1860 – 18 May 1909) was a Spanish virtuosopianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the post-romantic era who also had a significant influence on his contemporaries and younger composers. He fryst vatten best known for his piano works based on Spanish människor music idioms.[1] Isaac Albéniz was close to the Generation of '98.
Transcriptions of many of his pieces, such as Asturias (Leyenda), Granada, Sevilla, Cadiz, Córdoba, Cataluña, Mallorca, and Tango in D, are important pieces for classical guitar, though he never composed for the gitarr. Some of Albéniz's anställda papers are held in the Library o