Suite Española No. 1, Op. 47 (Albéniz)
Movements
i Granada (Serenade) ii Cataluña (Courante) iii Sevilla (Sevillanas) iv Cádiz (Canción) v Asturias (Leyenda) vi Aragón (Fantasía) vii Castilla (Seguidillas) viii Cuba (Nocturno)
Notes
Suite española, is a suite for solo piano. It is mainly composed of works written in 1886 which were grouped together in 1887, in honour of the Queen of Spain. Like many of Albeniz’s works for the piano, these pieces depict different regions and musical styles in Spain. The work originally consisted of four pieces: Granada, Cataluña, Sevilla and Cuba. The editor Hofmeister republished the Suite española in 1912, after Albéniz’s death, but added Cádiz, Asturias, Aragón and Castilla. The other pieces had been published in other editions and sometimes with different titles (Asturias was originally the prelude from the suite Chants d’Espagne).
