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Albéniz
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Al·bé·niz  (äl-bns), Isaac 1860-1909.
Spanish composer and pianist. A student of Franz Liszt, he composed piano works based on Spanish folk music.

Albéniz (Spanish) [alˈβeniθ]
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(Biographies / Albéniz, Isaac (1860-1909) M, Spanish, MUSIC: composer) Isaac (isaˈak). 1860-1909, Spanish composer; noted for piano pieces inspired by folk music, such as the suite Iberia


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Like so many Spaniards before him, such as Manuel de Falla, Ricardo Vines, Pablo Casals, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Apelles Fenosa, Celso Lagar, Enrique Granados, Manuel Turina and Issac Albeniz, Mompou established himself in "that sonorous garden of France, where all genus of plants and flowers were cultivated .
He turned to Boston Ballet senior artist Viktor Plotnikov, who devised a Carmen that uses the traditional score by Bizet along with additional music from Albeniz and Rodrigo.
But it was Leopold Godowsky's arrangement of a tango by Isaac Albeniz that swept the audience away with its sweet ethereal quality.
 
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