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Asturias (Leyenda), named simply Prelude by its composer, [1] is a musical work by the Spanish composer and pianist Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909). The opening is shown here in piano score. The repeated D is an example of the use of a pedal note.
First performed on 16 October 2016 at the National Opera of Bucharest. First performed by the Ballet Nacional de España on 15 April 2021 at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville.
Asturias (Leyenda), named simply Prelude by its composer, is a musical work by the Spanish composer and pianist Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909). The opening is shown here in piano score. The repeated D is an example of the use of a pedal note.
Asturias, solo piano piece written in the early 1890s by Catalan composer and pianist Isaac Albéniz, using rolled chords that effectively evoke the strumming of a guitar. In fact, the version usually played is a transcription of the original piano piece for guitar.
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Asturias (Leyenda) was originally written for the piano and set in the key of G minor, and first published in Barcelona, by Juan Bta. Pujol & Co., in 1892, as the prelude of a three-movement set of the composer, entitled Chants d’Espagne. Many have attributed the first transcription for guitar to the Spanish composer and classical guitarist Francis...
Thibaut Garcia, the Franco-Spanish guitarist, was born in 1994 in Toulouse, where he began learning the guitar at the age of seven. He then won the guitar prize in the class of Paul Ferret. At the age of 16, he was admitted to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, in Olivier Chassain’s class, while at the same time b...
Thibaut Garcia biographyAsturias on WikipediaDec 16, 2013 · Asturias (Leyenda), named simply Leyenda by its composer, is a famous musical work by the Spanish composer and pianist Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909). The piece was originally written for the piano and set in the key of G minor. It was first published in Barcelona, by Juan Bta.
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Chants d'Espagne, Op. 232, (Spanish: Cantos de España, English: Songs of Spain) is a suite of originally three, later five pieces for the piano by Isaac Albéniz. Prélude (later known as Asturias (Leyenda)), Orientale and Sous le palmier were published in 1892, and Córdoba and Seguidillas were added in the 1898 edition.
