Iberia is a suite for piano composed between 1905 and 1909 by the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz. It comprises four books of three pieces each; a complete performance lasts about an hour and a half.
It is Albéniz's masterpiece and his best-known work, highly praised by Claude Debussy and Olivier Messiaen, who said: “Iberia is the wonder for the piano; it is perhaps on the highest place among the more brilliant pieces for the king of the instrumen...
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Iberia
Composition
Composer
Isaac Albéniz
Isaac Albéniz i Pascual (Spanish pronunciation: [iˈsak alˈβeniθ]) (May 29, 1860 – May 18, 1909) was a Spanish Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music.
Born in Camprodon, Albéniz was a child prodigy who first performed at the age of four. At age seven he...
Date completed:
- 1909
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