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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199250529
• ISBN13: 9780199250523
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"