Born in Camprodon in Catalonia in 1860, died in Cambo-les-Bains in 1909; Isaac Albéniz was a pianist and composer. He appeared in public as early as the age of four; after studying in Barcelona and Brussels, where in 1879 he received a first prize in piano at the conservatory, he worked as a concert pianist and later lived in Barcelona, London and Paris. At the Schola Cantorum he taught composition. His piano works include the suite “Iberia”, written between 1905 and 1909; for the stage he wrote “Pepita Jiménez” and “Merlin”, among other works. He is represented as a composer on the Cybele album Rolf Hildebrand: Marimba (1995).
Isaac Albéniz
Composer
