The IX Festival Internacional de Música de Tecla Española “Diego Fernández” took place in Garrucha, Almería, October 9-12, 2008 . Dedicated this year to Spanish piano music of the nineteenth century, it focused on composers, works, and stylistic features antecedent to the greatest manifestation of Spanish piano composition, Iberia, by Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909). Hence, the title of this year’s conference: Pre-Iberia: From Masarnau to Albéniz. This year’s festival was organized by Luisa Morales, founder and director of FIMTE, and Walter A. Clark, professor of musicology at the University of California, Riverside, and author of the well-known biography Isaac Albéniz: Retrato de un romántico (Turner, 2002). The festival featured papers and concerts presented by distinguished scholars and performers from Spain, Great Britain, the United…
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