Isaac Albéniz: Portrait of a Romantic

By Walter Aaron Clark

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019816369X
• ISBN13: 9780198163695
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"