Name Enrique Granados Role Pianist | Spouse Amparo Gal (m. 1892–1916) | |
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Children Eduard Granados, Victor Granados, Natalia Granados, Francesc Granados, Solita Granados, Enric Granados Parents Calixto Granados, Enriqueta Campina Compositions Goyescas, Goyescas, Spanish dance - No 5, Spanish dance - No 5, The Maiden and the Nightingale, The Maiden and the Nightingale, Maria del Carmen, Maria del Carmen, Allegro de concierto - op 46, Allegro de concierto - op 46, Aparicion, Aparicion, Paises sonados, Paises sonados, Capricho espanol - op 39, Capricho espanol - op 39, Escena religiosa, Escena religiosa, El pelele, El pelele, Rapsodia aragonesa, Rapsodia aragonesa, Cancion arabe, Cancion arabe, A la pradera, A la pradera, Canto del pescador - DLR III:8, Canto del pescador - DLR III:8, Fantasia - Cheherezada, Fantasia - Cheherezada, Moresque, Moresque, Valses sentimentales - DLR VII:4: No 5 Allegro appassionato, Valses sentimentales - DLR VII:4: No 5 Allegro appassionato, Goyescas - H65: Cuadro III Interludio, Goyescas - H65: Cuadro III Interludio, Album de melodias - Paris - 1888 - DLR III:1: Mazurka in G minor, Album de melodias - Paris - 1888 - DLR III:1: Mazurka in G minor, Album de melodias - Paris - 1888 - DLR III:1: Mazurka in E-flat major, Album de melodias - Paris - 1888 - DLR III:1: Mazurka in E-flat major, Valse de Concert, Valse de Concert, Bocetos: I Despertar del cazador, Bocetos: I Despertar del cazador, Trio - op 50: II Scherzetto - Vivace molto, Trio - op 50: II Scherzetto - Vivace molto, Libro de horas: III Al suplicio, Libro de horas: III Al suplicio, Piano Trio - op 50: I Poco allegro con espressione, Piano Trio - op 50: I Poco allegro con espressione, Apariciones - valses romanticos: Ecos, Apariciones - valses romanticos: Ecos, Goyescas - H65: Cuadro I Los requiebros, Goyescas - H65: Cuadro I Los requiebros, Seis piezas sobre cantos populares espanoles - H125 - No 1: Anoranza, Seis piezas sobre cantos populares espanoles - H125 - No 1: Anoranza, Album de melodias - Paris - 1888 - DLR III:1: Enyoranca, Album de melodias - Paris - 1888 - DLR III:1: Enyoranca, En la aldea - poema - DLR VIII:1: No 2 Maitines, En la aldea - poema - DLR VIII:1: No 2 Maitines, En la aldea - poema - DLR VIII:1: No 9 Final, En la aldea - poema - DLR VIII:1: No 9 Final, 2 marchas militares - DLR VIII:2: No 1 Allegretto, 2 marchas militares - DLR VIII:2: No 1 Allegretto, Three Impromptus - DLR V:6: No 1 in A major, Three Impromptus - DLR V:6: No 1 in A major, 12 danzas espanolas - op 37 - nº 9: Mazurca, 12 danzas espanolas - op 37 - nº 9: Mazurca, Album de melodias - Paris - 1888 - DLR III:1: Pregant, Album de melodias - Paris - 1888 - DLR III:1: Pregant, Escenas infantiles - miniaturas: Melodia, Escenas infantiles - miniaturas: Melodia, Goyescas - H65: Intermezzo, Goyescas - H65: Intermezzo, Escenas infantiles - miniaturas: Recitando, Escenas infantiles - miniaturas: Recitando, Trio - op 50: III Duetto - Andante con molto espressione, Trio - op 50: III Duetto - Andante con molto espressione, Soldados de carton - DLR III:21, Soldados de carton - DLR III:21, Mazurka in A minor - DLR III:5, Mazurka in A minor - DLR III:5, L'himne dels morts - DLR V:5, L'himne dels morts - DLR V:5, Goyescas - H65: Cuadro II El Fandango, Goyescas - H65: Cuadro II El Fandango, Goyescas: Intermezzo - DLR II:6, Goyescas: Intermezzo - DLR II:6, En la aldea - poema - DLR VIII:1: No 3 El cortejo, En la aldea - poema - DLR VIII:1: No 3 El cortejo, 12 tonadillas al estilo antiguo - H136: No 7: El tra-la-la y el punteado, 12 tonadillas al estilo antiguo - H136: No 7: El tra-la-la y el punteado, Album de melodias - Paris - 1888 - DLR III:1: Cantos orientales: Allegro vivace, Album de melodias - Paris - 1888 - DLR III:1: Cantos orientales: Allegro vivace, Seis piezas sobre cantos populares espanoles - H125 - No 4: Marcha oriental, Seis piezas sobre cantos populares espanoles - H125 - No 4: Marcha oriental, Album de melodias - Paris - 1888 - DLR III:1: Cantos orientales: Conte, Album de melodias - Paris - 1888 - DLR III:1: Cantos orientales: Conte, 7 estudios - DLR IV:4: No 2 in F-sharp minor, 7 estudios - DLR IV:4: No 2 in F-sharp minor, Goyescas - H65: Cuadro II El baile del Candil, Goyescas - H65: Cuadro II El baile del Candil Similar People Isaac Albeniz, Manuel de Falla, Alicia de Larrocha, Joaquin Turina, Joaquin Rodrigo | ||
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Enrique Granados Campiña (27 July 1867 – 24 March 1916) was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, is representative of musical nationalism.
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- Life
- Music and influence
- Some important works
- Recordings by Granados
- References
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Life
Enrique Granados Campiña was born in Lleida, Spain, the son of Calixto Granados, a Spanish army captain, and Enriqueta Campiña. As a young man he studied piano in Barcelona, where his teachers included Francisco Jurnet and Joan Baptista Pujol. In 1887 he went to Paris to study. He was unable to become a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but he was able to take private lessons with a conservatoire professor, Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot, whose mother, the soprano Maria Malibran, was of Spanish ancestry. Bériot insisted on extreme refinement in tone production, which strongly influenced Granados’s own teaching of pedal technique. He also fostered Granados's abilities in improvisation. Just as important were his studies with Felip Pedrell. He returned to Barcelona in 1889. His first successes were at the end of the 1890s, with the opera María del Carmen, which attracted the attention of King Alfonso XIII.
In 1911 Granados premiered his suite for piano Goyescas, which became his most famous work. It is a set of six pieces based on paintings of Francisco Goya. Such was the success of this work that he was encouraged to expand it. He wrote an opera based on the subject in 1914, but the outbreak of World War I forced the European premiere to be canceled. It was performed for the first time in New York City on 28 January 1916, and was very well received. Shortly afterwards, he was invited to perform a piano recital for President Woodrow Wilson. Prior to leaving New York, Granados also made live-recorded player piano music rolls for the New-York-based Aeolian Company's "Duo-Art" system, all of which survive today and can be heard – his very last recordings.
The delay incurred by accepting the recital invitation caused him to miss his boat back to Spain. Instead, he took a ship to England, where he boarded the passenger ferry SS Sussex for Dieppe, France. On the way across the English Channel, the Sussex was torpedoed by a German U-boat, as part of the German World War I policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. In a failed attempt to save his wife Amparo, whom he saw flailing about in the water some distance away, Granados jumped out of his lifeboat and drowned. However, the ship broke in two parts and only one sank (along with 80 passengers). Ironically, the part of the ship that contained his cabin did not sink and was towed to port, with most of the passengers, except for Granados and his wife, on board. Granados and his wife left six children: Eduard (a musician), Solita, Enrique (a swimming champion), Víctor, Natàlia, and Francisco.
The personal papers of Enrique Granados are preserved in, among other institutions, the National Library of Catalonia.
Music and influence
Granados wrote piano music, chamber music (a piano quintet, a piano trio, music for violin and piano), songs, zarzuelas, and an orchestral tone poem based on Dante's Divine Comedy. Many of his piano compositions have been transcribed for the classical guitar: examples include Dedicatoria, Danza No. 5, Goyescas.
His music can be divided into basically three styles or periods:
- A romantic style including such pieces as Escenas Románticas and Escenas Poeticas.
- A more typically nationalist, Spanish style including such pieces as Danzas Españolas (Spanish Dances), 6 Piezas sobre cantos populares españoles (Six Pieces based on popular Spanish songs).
- The Goya (Goyesca) period, which includes the piano suite Goyescas, the opera Goyescas, various Tonadillas for voice and piano, and other works.
Granados was an important influence on at least two other important Spanish composers and musicians, Manuel de Falla and Pablo Casals. He was also the teacher of composer Rosa García Ascot.