Albanesi, Carlo - Mattinata , Op. 53 No. 1

#1 of ’Deux Pièces pour Piano’ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Italian pianist and composer Carlo Albanesi (1856-1926) spent much of his career in London, where he was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music from 1896 until his death (there is still a Carlo Albanesi prize for Chopin performance at the Academy). His wife was the novelist Effie Rowlands. He suffered tragedy late in his life when his daughter Maggie, a promising ac