![]() For London he wrote some musical comedies which brought him to the attention of the wealthy Francis Money-Coutts, 5th Baron Latymer. ![]() During the 1890s Albéniz lived in London and Paris. The apex of Albéniz's concert career is considered to be 1889 to 1892 when he had concert tours throughout Europe. (Many of Albéniz's other compositions were also transcribed for guitar, notably by Francisco Tárrega.) At the 1888 Universal Exposition in Barcelona, the piano manufacturer Érard sponsored a series of 20 concerts featuring Albéniz's music. 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. In 1883 he met the teacher and composer Felip Pedrell, who inspired him to write Spanish music such as the Chants d'Espagne. In 1880 Albéniz went to Budapest to study with Franz Liszt, only to find out that Liszt was in Weimar, Germany. Count Morphy thought highly of Albéniz, who would later dedicate Sevilla to Morphy's wife when it premiered in Paris in January 1886. In 1876, after a short stay at the Leipzig Conservatory, he went to study at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels after King Alfonso's personal secretary, Guillermo Morphy, obtained him a royal grant. This can be attested by comparing Isaac's concert dates with his father's travel itinerary. Albéniz did travel the world as a performer however, he was accompanied by his father, who as a customs agent was required to travel frequently. This over-dramatized story is not entirely false. By age 15, he had already given concerts worldwide. He then made his way via Cuba to the United States, giving concerts in New York and San Francisco and then travelled to Liverpool, London and Leipzig. A popular myth is that at the age of 12 Albéniz stowed away in a ship bound for Buenos Aires. His concert career began at the age of nine when his father toured both Isaac and his sister, Clementina, throughout northern Spain. By the time he had reached 12, he had made many attempts to run away from home. ![]() At age seven, after apparently taking lessons from Antoine François Marmontel, he passed the entrance examination for piano at the Paris Conservatoire, but he was refused admission because he was believed to be too young. Lifeīorn in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz (a customs official) and his wife, Dolors Pascual, Albéniz was a child prodigy who first performed at the age of four. The personal papers of Isaac Albéniz are preserved, among other institutions, in the Biblioteca de Catalunya. ![]() Transcriptions of many of his pieces, such as Asturias (Leyenda), Granada, Sevilla, Cádiz, Córdoba, Cataluña, and the Tango in D, are important pieces for classical guitar, though he never composed for the guitar. Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual ( – ) was a Spanish pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms. ![]()
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