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The essential piece of Isaac Albéniz could be Like a Virgin ? (11)

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I believe the answer is:

elizabethan

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'virgin ?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'the essential piece of isaac albeniz could be like a' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'the' is 'eth' which is located in the answer.
'piece' could be 'n' (abbreviation for Knight in chess notation) and 'n' is found within the answer.
'a' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for elizabethan that I've seen before include "Of an earlier queen's times" , "Drake, for example" , "swan once seen on Avon?" , "Relating to period around sixteen hundred" , "Age from 1558 to 1603 (or since 1952?)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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