Enrique Granados

Born	July 27, 1867 Lleida, Spain
Died	March 24, 1916 (aged 48) A German mine while on the Sussex
Nationality	Spanish
Scientific Career
Field	Pianist Composer Conductor
Workplaces	Madrid Classical Music Society Granados Academy of Music

pianosintheparks.com  – Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados Campiña (27 July 1867 – 24 March 1916), commonly known as Enrique Granados in Spanish or Enric Granados in Catalan, was a Spanish composer of classical music, and concert pianist from Catalonia, Spain. His most well-known works include Goyescas, the Spanish Dances [es], and María del Carmen.

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Enrique Granados was one of the great pianists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In his youth, he studied composition in Barcelona with Felipe Pedrell, the father of Spanish musical nationalism. Later he went to Paris but was unable to become a student at the Conservatoire. Instead, he started working under the well-known pianist and teacher Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot. Returning to Barcelona in 1889, Granados established himself successfully both as a pianist and as a composer. In 1901 he founded his own piano school, Academia Granados, which produced a number of distinguished pianists. Granados stayed very involved with the school for the rest of his life.

Granados’s works can be divided into three main groups: first, the ‘nationalist’ works, based on Catalan and Spanish folk idioms; second, works in a more general, romantic style; and third, the works inspired by the art of Francisco de Goya. The suite Goyescas, Granados masterpiece (1911), is a set of six pieces based on paintings by Goya.
In 1914, he also wrote an opera on the same subject, but the outbreak of World War I stopped the European premiere. Instead, the opera was performed for the first time in New York City in 1916. While in America, Granados performed a piano recital for President Woodrow Wilson and recorded some player piano music rolls – which turned out to be his very last recordings. Returning home, Granados and his wife drowned when their ship was torpedoed by a German submarine.