ALBENIZ, ISAAC (186o-1909), Spanish pianist and pro lific composer, who only towards the close of his career found his true metier and wrote the works which give him his chief claim to remembrance. These were his brilliant and fascinating piano forte pieces, such as the suite Iberia, reproducing the rhythms and other characteristic features of Spanish popular music. He wrote also a number of works for the stage, including a comic opera, The Magic Opal, produced in London, and a more ambi tious work, Pepita Jimenez, but these were of less account.