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Baker S Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians, 1900
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1Pedrell, and was greatly influenced by Pedrell's passionate championship of national Spanish music. Albéniz's first nationalistically inspired composition was the rhapsody Catalonia for piano and orch. (1899). In 1906-09 he wrote his most remarkable national work Iberia, a set of 12 piano pieces: Evocación, El Puerto, Fête-Dieu à Seville, Rondeña, Almería, Triana, El Albaicín, El Polo, Lavapiés, Málaga, Jerez, Eritaña. In this suite, which is a brilliant example of virtuoso writing for the instrument, Albéniz applied the impressionistic technique as developed by Debussy. He left unfinished two other piano works, Azulejos (completed by Granados) and Navarra (completed by D. de Séverac; orchestrated by Fernández Arbós). Arbós also made effective orchestral transcriptions of Evocación, Triana, and Fête-Dieu à Seville (also orchestrated by Stokowski). Among Albéniz's smaller piano pieces, the Seguidillas, Córdova, and the Tango in D have attained wide popularity. Bibl.: J. de Marliave, Etudes musicales (Paris, 1917); G. Jean-Aubry, Isaac Albéniz, in the 'Musical Times' (Dec. 1917); H. Klein, Albéniz's Opera, Pepita Jiménez, in the 'Musical Times' (March, 1918); G. Jean-Aubry, La Musique et les Nations (Paris, 1922; English translation, 1923); Henri Collet, Albéniz et Granados (1925); E. Intel, Albéniz, in the 'Mus. Quarterly' (Jan., 1929); A. de las Heras, Vida de Albéniz (Barcelona, 1940); M. Raux Deledicque, Albéniz, su vida inquieta y ardorosa (Buenos Aires, 1950); A. Sagardia, Isaac Albéniz (Buenos Aires, 1951).
3Albéniz, Mateo (Antonio Pérez de), Spanish composer; date of birth unknown; d. St. Sebastian, June 23, 1831; was a church organist; published Instrucción melódica especulativa y práctica para enseñar a cantar y a tocar la música antigua (S. Sebastian, 1802). His sonata for piano was published by Joaquín Nin in 16 Sonates anciennes d'auteurs espagnols (Paris, 1925).
5Albéniz, Pedro, Spanish organist and composer; son of Mateo Albéniz; b. Logroño, April 14, 1795; d. Madrid, April 12, 1855. He studied with his father; from his early youth played the organ in various Spanish towns; later studied piano in Paris with Kalkbrenner and Henri Herz. In 1830 he was appointed prof. of piano at the Madrid Cons.; in 1834 became court organist. He was an energetic promoter of modern methods of piano playing in Spain. He published a manual (1840) which was adopted at the Madrid Cons.; also wrote some 70 piano pieces in a highly developed technical style (rondos, variations, medleys, etc.).
7Albergati, Pirro Capacelli, Conte d', Italian composer; b. Carrati, Sept. 20, 1663; d. Bologna, June 22, 1735. He wrote 2 operas, Gli amici (Bologna, Aug. 16, 1699) and Il Principe selvaggio (Bologna, 1712), and numerous oratorios which were regularly performed at various churches in Bologna (1686-1732): Nabuccodonosor; Giobbe; S. Orsola; Il convito di Baldassarre; L'innocenza di S. Eufemia; S. Catarina; S. Eustachio; Maria annunciata dall' angelo; La morte di Cristo; etc. Besides these works, Albergati published during his lifetime 15 opus numbers, consisting of vocal and instrumental music, among them Balletti, Correnti, Cantate morali, Cantate spirituali, Messa e salmi, Cantate da camera, Motetti et antifone, Capricci, 12 sonatas for 2 violins and bass, etc.
9Alberghetti, Anna Maria, Italian soprano; b. Rodi, May 5, 1936. She first sang in public at the age of 6; gave recitals in Milan at 9. She came to America in 1950; made her debut in Carnegie Hall; has also appeared in films.
11Albert, Heinrich, German composer; b. Lobenstein, Saxony, July 8, 1604; d. Königsberg, Oct. 6, 1651. In 1622 he went to Dresden to study music with his cousin Heinrich Schütz; then studied law at the Univ. of Leipzig; traveled to Warsaw with a peace delegation in 1627, but was seized as a prisoner of war by the Swedes; upon his release in 1628 he settled in Königsberg; was appointed cathedral organist in 1631; took courses with Johann Stobäus. He publ. in Königsberg 8 books of arias (1638-50); a cantata Musikalische Kürbs-Hütte (1645) consisting of a cycle of 12 terzets to Albert's own texts (a modern reprint was issued by J. M. Müller-Blattau in 1932). A selection of his songs is found in the 'Neudrucke deutscher Litteraturwerke' (Halle, 1883); the arias in volumes XII and XIII of 'Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst.' Bibl.: L. H. Fischer, Gedichte des Königsberger Dichterkreises (Halle, 1883); H. J. Moser, Corydon (1933).
13d'Albert (dahl-bär'), Eugène (Francis Charles), British-born German pianist and composer; b. Glasgow, April 10, 1864; d. Riga, March 3, 1932. His father, Charles Louis Napoleon d'Albert (b. Nienstetten, near Hamburg, Feb. 25, 1809; d. London, May 26, 1886), was a dancing master who wrote popular music; it was from him that d'Albert received his early instruction in
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