Iberia by Isaac Albeniz

I B E R I A

by

Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)

Facsimile edition and historical-documental essay by Jacinto Torres

Integral revision by Guillermo Gonzalez

Madrid, Spain : Editorial de Música Española Contemporánea - Española De Ediciones Musicales Schott, c1998

163 p. of music, xlii ; 41 cm

ML96.5.A439 I3 1998

Isaac Albéniz completed the suite of twelve piano pieces that comprise Iberia nearly a century ago (December 1905-January 1908) in hopes of creating a “Spanish music with a universal accent.”  Jacinto Torres describes in the essay that accompanies this facsimile edition Manuel de Falla’s perspective on Albeniz’s work, “… what makes this music beautiful and valuable beyond compare for Spain is that it really represents for us the final, lucid and twilight image of an environment and a time that we will never see again.”

 – Page xxvii, Jacinto Torres (translated by John Griffiths)

The illustration (above) is by Albeniz’s daughter, Laura; it appeared originally on the cover of the publication of the first two of four books that comprise these impressions of Spain.