Isaac Albéniz
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Isaac Albéniz – Asturias
Biography
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Born in Camprodon, Girona, Catalonia, on 29th May 1860, Albéniz was a child prodigy who first performed at the age of four. At the age of seven he passed the entrance examination for piano at the Paris Conservatoire, but he was refused admission because he took out a ball from his pocket and broke a glass window while playing with it. By fifteen, he had already given concerts worldwide. After a short stay at the Leipzig Conservatory, in 1876 he went to study in Brussels. In 1880, he went to Budapest to study with Franz Liszt, only to find out that Liszt was in Weimar, Germany.
In 1883 he met the teacher and composer Felipe Pedrell, who inspired him to write Spanish music such as the Suite Española, op. 47. The fifth movement of that suite, called Asturias (Leyenda) is probably most famous these days in the classical guitar world, even though it was originally composed for piano and only later transcribed to guitar by Francisco Tárrega. Many of his other compositions were also later transcribed to guitar - Albéniz himself preferred Tárrega’s guitar transcriptions to his original piano works.
During the 1890s Albéniz lived in London and Paris and wrote mainly theatrical works. In 1900 he started to suffer from kidney disease and returned to writing piano music. Between 1905 and 1909 he composed his most famous work, Iberia (1908), a suite of twelve piano “impressions”.
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CCD-06 Música española
2,418 listeners11 tracks
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Iberia
185 listeners20 tracks
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Iberia (Moscow Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Igor Golovschin)
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Suite Española
38 listeners8 tracks
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qixonnaute
but guys didn't you know smoking kills you why are we letting kids see this extremely influential figure of modern music doing such horrendous things to his body
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SUSEHurricane
if you care about him smoking a cigar in the picture you're a moron [3] I cannot tolerate that user's stupidity
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Alexface21
if you care about him smoking a cigar in the picture you're a moron [2]
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Iberia!
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jewmastrsupreme
if you care about him smoking a cigar in the picture your a moron
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denisbastos
I don't so the problem in showing him smoking.
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Parisblues
There's a large choice of pictures without doing tabacco incitation. please vote.
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DoctaMario
Francisco Tarrega was also responsible for setting some of Albeniz' piano works to guitar (Asturias being one of Tarrega's arrangements.)
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Faraxxe
for everyone who keeps saying stuff like "no body understood classical guitar as Albeniz did!", please bare in mind that Albeniz never wrote anything but for piano. The guitar versions were written by other composers such as Andres Segovia.
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deadgrave
Asturias is probbaby the best guitar solo song
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NatassjaEternal
A kindred spirit indeed. A very kindred spirit.
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Kamelanne
He wrote the most beautiful music!
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ReggeaFun
Asturias is my fav.Especially John Williams version
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deadgrave
Asturias fantastic
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DotsDisconnect
genius!
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Tomodachi
Anyone have "Asturias (Leyenda)" full track in piano, quality piece from the Lexus commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cBPQI46qPA ? Who played the ad version?
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BlueSlumber
no body understood classical guitar as Albeniz did! :)
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