Romanticism · Spain
1860 – 1909
Camprodon - Cambodia - les- Bains
Review
Pianist prodigy, visited the world from a very young age and studied in Leipzig and Brussels. Under the influence of Felipe Pedrell he proposed to create a Spanish music of universal projection.
He lived in London and Paris, where he was a friend of Fauré, Dukas and d'Indy. His culminating work, Iberia, is one of the tops of the piano of all time.
Main works
- Spanish Suite op. 47, with «Asturias (Legend)» and «Grenada»
- Travel memories op. 71
- Tango en re, from Spain op. 165 (1890)
- Opera Pepita Jiménez (1896)
- Iberia, four piano notebooks (1905-1908)
