Calle conchita supervia biography
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The Pedro Albéniz Tradition
Piano Traditions Through Their Genealogy Trees
© , by Daniel Pereira
Doctor of Musical Arts |
Albéniz, Isaac
Spanish (Camprodón, May 29, — Cambo-les-Bains, May 18, )
Isaac Albéniz was a pianist and composer. He was a child prodigy and a great improviser. Albéniz grew up in Barcelona and started piano lessons with his sister Clementina. In order to contribute to support his family when his father lost his job, Albéniz frequently went on tour and was forced to interrupt his music studies. He studied at the Madrid, Leipzig and Brussels conservatories with Eduardo Compta, José Tragó, Antoine-François Marmontel, Franz Rummel and Louis Brassin. Albéniz lived for a time in London, where the wealthy banker Money-Coutts became his only patron. After some time in Paris, where he taught at the Schola Cantorum and became close friends with Dukas and Fauré, Albéniz returned to Spain. He composed numerous piano pieces including two piano concertos,
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Spanish Romances
Pilar Lorengar (soprano)
Siegfried Behrend (guitar CD 1), Alicia de Larrocha (piano CD 2), Richard Klemm (Viola da gamba CD 1 tr. 10)
rec. Ufa-Studio, Berlin, 13 & 14 January (CD 1); Rosslyn Hill Chapel, London, July (CD 2)
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ELOQUENCE [ + ]Spanish soprano Pilar Lorengar (January 16, &#; June 2, ) born Lorenza Pilar García Seta, was one of the great names d
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Program: Pianist Alicia de Larrocha
"I am me and I don't like anybody to compare me to others. Everything in my personality depends on my mood – sometimes very dark, sometimes very bright and optimistic. I am a very variable person."
At the start of her career after the Second World War, Alicia de Larrocha was regularly compared with past female pianists like Clara Schumann and Teresa Carreño. Later in the mids after the death of Dame Myra Hess, she was proclaimed as the reigning female pianist. But at the peak of her career, her myriad skills made her gender irrelevant, and she was regularly compared with Horowitz and Rubinstein.
De Larrocha's most enduring legacy was her championship of Spanish composers. At a time when few played Granados and Albéniz, and certainly not with her flair and intuition, she brought them and numerous other Spaniards appreciation and recognition far beyond the Iberian peninsula. She also nurtured close and productive associati