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So Albéniz, I don't know 
his music very well.

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Tell me about him.

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Well, he's probably 
the greatest,

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most famous guitar composer 
that never wrote for the guitar.

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I mean, he mainly composed for 
this instrument, for the piano,

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because he was himself 
a virtuoso, a piano virtuoso.

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And he tried to capture in his 
music, let's say, the essence of 
Spain.

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For example, you have the 
phrygian mode, which is so 
typical from flamenco

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which sounds like this.

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♪♪

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And not only that,

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he tried to capture the spirit 
of some cities from Spain.

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He composed pieces naming them 
"Sevilla," "Cadiz,"

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"Asturias." Many, many of them.

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So he was very interested in 
Spain as a source of inspiration 
for his music.

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And, of course, another source 
of inspiration for him was

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the king of the Spanish 
instruments, which is the 
Spanish guitar,

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la guitarra española.

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They open strings, the treble 
and the arpeggios,

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the repeated notes, all of that.

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You would rarely find in music 
before this revolution.

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But after Albéniz, that became a 
typical thing for Spanish 
composers to do.

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And it's very the 
repeated notes. Yes.

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You know, the one note repeated, 
that's a very difficult thing in 
the piano.

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And that's an easy 
thing then to get that.

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♪♪

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So that's much harder on 
the piano, I would imagine.

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It is. It is. Hands 
overlap constantly.

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And then we have the jumps that 
you have it in the same place.

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We don't.

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If you want, I can show you now 
a "Asturias" on the piano,

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how it sounds.

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♪♪

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Only a Spanish composer 
would write a piano piece

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so inspired by the guitar that 
it fits better on that 
instrument.

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Albéniz created music

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with such Spanish personality 
that to fully appreciate it,

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I need to understand 
the personality of Spain itself.