Mateo Albéniz, also known as Mateo Antonio Pérez de Albéniz (c. 175523 June 1831) was a Spanish composer, theorist, and
priest
A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particu ...
. He is not related to the better-known composer
Isaac Albéniz, but he was the father of
Pedro Albéniz
Pedro Albéniz y Basanta (14 April 179512 April 1855) was a Spanish pianist and composer. He was unrelated to Isaac Albéniz.
Life
Albéniz was born Logroño, La Rioja. He began his studies with his father Mateo Albéniz, a notable church mus ...
. He is identified by the name Pedro Albéniz in some older biographical sources and was said to have died in 1821.
[ George Grove, " Albeniz, Pedro," in '']A Dictionary of Music and Musicians
''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and theo ...
'' (1900).
He was born in the Basque region. He held a post as
Maestro de Capilla
(, also , ) from German ''Kapelle'' (chapel) and ''Meister'' (master)'','' literally "master of the chapel choir" designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel, the term ha ...
in
San Sebastián
San Sebastian, officially known as Donostia–San Sebastián (names in both local languages: ''Donostia'' () and ''San Sebastián'' ()) is a city and Municipalities of Spain, municipality located in the Basque Country (autonomous community), B ...
and in
Logroño from 1795 to 1800, when he returned to San Sebastián (where he died) until his retirement in 1829.
He composed
masses,
vespers
Vespers is a service of evening prayer, one of the canonical hours in Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Catholic Church, Catholic (both Latin liturgical rites, Latin and Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern), Lutheranism, Lutheran, and Anglican ...
,
motet
In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of the pre-eminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music. According to Margar ...
s, and other church music, never published, and a book of
solfeggi (published at St. Sebastian, 1800). Albéniz also wrote for the
harpsichord
A harpsichord ( it, clavicembalo; french: clavecin; german: Cembalo; es, clavecín; pt, cravo; nl, klavecimbel; pl, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. This activates a row of levers that turn a trigger mechanism ...
and
fortepiano
A fortepiano , sometimes referred to as a pianoforte, is an early piano. In principle, the word "fortepiano" can designate any piano dating from the invention of the instrument by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1698 up to the early 19th century. Mo ...
. The work by which he is best known today is the ''
Sonata
Sonata (; Italian: , pl. ''sonate''; from Latin and Italian: ''sonare'' rchaic Italian; replaced in the modern language by ''suonare'' "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece ''played'' as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian ''cant ...
in D major'', of which a popular transcription for
guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...
has been made.
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1755 births
1831 deaths
Spanish male classical composers
Spanish Classical-period composers
Classical composers of church music
Catholic liturgical composers
Spanish organists
Male organists
18th-century classical composers
18th-century male musicians
18th-century musicians
18th-century keyboardists
19th-century classical composers
19th-century organists
19th-century Spanish male musicians
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