Editing Isaac Albéniz (section)

=== Later period ===
While Albéniz's crowning achievement, ''[[Iberia (Albéniz)|Iberia]]'', was written in the last years of his life in France, many of its preceding works are well-known and of great interest. The five pieces in ''[[Chants d'Espagne]]'' (''Songs of Spain'', published in 1892) are a solid example of the compositional ideas he was exploring in the "middle period" of his life. The suite shows what Albéniz biographer Walter Aaron Clark describes as the "first flowering of his unique creative genius"{{Page needed|date=September 2010}}, and the beginnings of compositional exploration that became the hallmark of his later works. This period also includes his operatic works—''[[Merlin (opera)|Merlin]], [[Henry Clifford (opera)|Henry Clifford]]'', and ''[[Pepita Jiménez (opera)|Pepita Jiménez]]''. His orchestral works of this period include ''Spanish Rhapsody'' (1887) and ''Catalonia'' (1899), dedicated to [[Ramon Casas i Carbó|Ramon Casas]], who had painted his full-length portrait in 1894.