Mateo Albéniz, also known as Mateo Antonio Pérez de Albéniz (c. 175523 June 1831) was a Spanish composer, theorist, and

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. 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 ''

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'' (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 ...

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and in Logroño from 1795 to 1800, when he returned to San Sebastián (where he died) until his retirement in 1829. He composed masses,

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s, and other church music, never published, and a book of solfeggi (published at St. Sebastian, 1800). Albéniz also wrote for the

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and

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. 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

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has been made.

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