Manuel Infante Danses Andalouses, I. Ritmo

Michelle Chen Kuo & Christopher Kuo
Two Piano Journey
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Manuel Infante (July 29, 1883 - April 21, 1958) was a Spanish composer who spent most of his life in France. A native of Osuna, Infante studied piano and composition with Enrique Morera, and settled in Paris in 1909. While there, he presented numerous concerts of Spanish music; a Spanish nationalist element is predominant in his own works. Andalusia
is the origin of the flamenco dance after which this suite is named. Ritmo begins at a measured tempo before eventually building into a flurry of runs building on the same rhythmic theme. Sentimiento’s grand opening cadenzas make way for a luxurious, rolling melody. Vito pulls straight from Flamenco theme, closing the collection with a mad frenzy.