No Spanish composer (ancient or modern) is better known outside of Spain than Isaac Albéniz (born May 29, 1861, at Comprodon; died at Cambo, in the Pyrenees, May 25, 1909). His fame rests almost entirely on twelve piano pieces (in four books) entitled collectively _Iberia_, with which all concert goers are familiar. They have been performed here by Ernest Schelling, Leo Ornstein, and George Copeland, among other virtuosi.... I think one or two of these pieces must be in the répertoire of every modern pianist. Albéniz did not imbibe his musical culture in Spain and to the day of his death he was more friendly with the modern French group of composers than with those of his native land. In his music he sees Spain with French eyes. He studied at Paris with Marmontel; at Brussels with Louis Brassin; and at Weimar with Liszt (he is mentioned in the long list of pupils in Huneker's biography of Liszt, but there is no further account of him in that book); he studied composition with Jadassohn, Joseph Dupont, and F. Kufferath. His symphonic poem, _Catalonia_, has been performed in Paris by the Colonne Orchestra. I have no record of any American performance. For a time he devoted himself to the piano. He was a virtuoso and he has even played in London, but later in life he gave up this career for composition. He wrote several operas and zarzuelas, among them a light opera, _The Magic Opal_ (produced in London, 1893), _Enrico Clifford_ (Barcelona, 1894; later heard in London), _Pepita Jiménez_ (Barcelona, 1895; afterwards given at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels), and _San Antonio de la Florida_ (produced in Brussels as _l'Ermitage Fleurie_). He left unfinished at his death another opera destined for production in Brussels at the Monnaie, _Merlin l'Enchanteur_. None of his operas, with the exception of _Pepita Jiménez_, which has been performed, I am told, in all Spanish countries, achieved any particular success, and it is _Iberia_ and a few other piano pieces which will serve to keep his memory green. Juan Bautista Pujol (1836-1898) gained considerable reputation in Spain as a pianist and as a teacher of and composer for that instrument. He also wrote a method for piano students entitled "Nuevo Mecanismo del Piano." His further claim to attention is due to the fact that he was one of the teachers of Granados. The names of Pahissa (both as conductor and composer; one of his symphonic works is called _The Combat_), García Robles, represented by an _Epitalame_, and Gibert, with two _Marines_, occur on the programs of the two concerts devoted in the main to Spanish music, at the second of which (Barcelona, 1910; conductor Franz Beidler) Granados's _Dante_ was performed.