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Biography of Enrique Granados
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, 4th edition
by Michael Kennedy and Joyce Bourne


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Granados (y Campina), Enrique (b Lérida, 1867; d at sea, 1916). Sp. composer and pianist. Début recital Barcelona 1890. Founded Soc. of Classical Concerts, Barcelona, 1900, and his own pf. sch., Academia Granados, 1901. Famous as brilliant pianist especially of his own comps. These pf. pieces are elegant and poetic; so are his songs, many of them in the style of 18th-cent. tonadillas. Best known of his orch. comps. is the Intermezzo from his opera Goyescas, based on the pf. suite of the same name which created a sensation in Paris in 1914. He and his wife were drowned when the liner Sussex was torpedoed by a Ger. U-boat in the Eng. Channel. Prin. works:

ZARZUELAS & OPERAS: Maria del Carmen (1898); Petrarca, Picarol (1901); Follet (1903); Gaziel (1906); Liliana (1911); Goyescas (1914-15).

ORCH.: suites: Elisenda (c.1910); Navidad; Suite Arabe; Suite Gallega; La Nit del mor; sym.-poem; Serenata; Tres danzas españolas (orch. de Grignon).

VOICE & PIANO: Colección de canciones amatorias; Colección de tonadillas, escritas en estilo antiguo, etc.

PIANO: 10 Sp. Dances (1892-1900); 6 Pieces on Sp. Popular Songs; Rapsodia Aragonesa; Escénas Romanticas; 7 valses poéticos; Bocetos; 6 Studies in Expression; Goyescas (1911).

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