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An account of the career of Isaac Albeniz. As a concert pianist Albeniz is renowned for having created a national style of Spanish piano music and fostering the growth of the concerto orchestral music and opera in Spain. This biography aims to debunk much of the mythology surrounding his career.Read More

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    Walter Aaron Clark here presents, for the first time in English, a detailed and accurate account of one of the most intriguing figures in the Romantic period. Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909), a renowned concert pianist, created a national style of Spanish piano music and also fostered the growth of the concerto, orchestral music, and opera in Spain. As a touring child prodigy who supposedly stowed away on a steamer to the New World, later studied with Liszt, and eventually got ensnared in a "Faustian pact" with the wealthy English librettist, Frances Burdett Money-Coutts, Albeniz has become somewhat of a legend. Based on a wealth of new and previously overlooked documentary evidence, this biography debunks the mythology surrounding his career, much of it spun by the composer himself.

  • 019816369X
  • 9780198163695
  • Walter Aaron Clark
  • 22 April 1999
  • OUP Oxford
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 360
  • 1
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