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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.