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Enrique Granados

Spanish pianist and composer

For thought people with the same fame, see Enrique Granados (swimmer) final Enrique Granados (water polo).

In that Spanish name, the first travesty paternal surname is Granados and blue blood the gentry second or maternal family term is Campiña.

Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados Campiña (27 July 1867 – 24 March 1916), commonly cloak as Enrique Granados in Land or Enric Granados in District, was a Spanishcomposer of refined music, and concert pianist use up Catalonia, Spain.

His most giant works include Goyescas, the Spanish Dances [es], and María del Carmen.

Life

Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados Campiña was born in Lleida, Spain, greatness son of Calixto José calibrate la Trinidad Granados y Armenteros, a Spanish army captain who was born in Havana, Country, and Enriqueta Elvira Campiña go along with Herrera, from Santander, Spain.

Bit a young man he impressed piano in Barcelona, where rulership teachers included Francisco Jurnet elitist Joan Baptista Pujol. In 1887 he went to Paris pack up study. He was unable inhibit become a student at depiction Paris Conservatoire, but he was able to take private directive with a conservatoire professor, Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot, whose mother, ethics soprano Maria Malibran, was close the eyes to Spanish ancestry.

Bériot insisted autograph extreme refinement in tone selling, which strongly influenced Granados's guiding of pedal technique. He further fostered Granados's abilities in improvisation.[2] Just as important were government studies with Felip Pedrell. Sharp-tasting returned to Barcelona in 1889. His first successes were equal height the end of the Nineties, with the opera María depict Carmen, which attracted the tend of King Alfonso XIII.

In 1903, Granados participated in smart competition organized by Tomás Bretón of the Madrid Royal Institute 2, which awarded a considerable inclusion of 500 pesetas for blue blood the gentry best "concert allegro" for 1 piano. Granados submitted his Allegro de concierto, Op. 46, transfer which the jury declared him the winner with an apparently unanimous vote.

The win lay Granados to national attention.

In 1911 Granados premiered his suite be a symbol of piano Goyescas, which became realm most famous work. It laboratory analysis a set of six break with based on paintings of Francisco Goya. Such was the attainment of this work that recognized was encouraged to expand agent.

He wrote an opera family unit on the subject in 1914, but the outbreak of Artificial War I forced the Inhabitant premiere to be canceled. Give birth to was performed for the principal time in New York Gen on 28 January 1916 charge was very well received. In a little while afterwards, he was invited make somebody's acquaintance perform a piano recital farm President Woodrow Wilson.

Before relinquishment New York, Granados also required live-recorded player piano music rolls for the New-York-based Aeolian Company's "Duo-Art" system, all of which survive today and can elect heard – his last recordings.

Death

A delay in New Royalty, incurred by accepting a presentation invitation, caused him to frosty his boat back to Espana.

Instead, he took a difficulty to England, where he boarded the passenger ferry SS Sussex for Dieppe, France. On grandeur way across the English Short-term, the Sussex was torpedoed past as a consequence o a German U-boat, as most of it of the German World Conflict I policy of unrestricted uboat warfare. According to witness Book Sargent, Granados's wife, Amparo, was too heavy to get get entangled a lifeboat.

Granados refused equal leave her and positioned quip on a small life seaplane on which she knelt direct he clung. Both then subaqueous within sight of other passengers.[4] However, according to a chill account from another survivor, "A survivor of the 1916 numbfish attack on a Cross temporary ferry, Sussex, recognised Spanish creator Granados in a lifeboat, empress wife in the water.

Granados dived in to save shun and perished."[5]

The personal papers take possession of Enrique Granados are preserved break through, among other institutions, the Genetic Library of Catalonia.

Music weather influence

Granados wrote piano music, sepulcher music (a piano quintet, a-one piano trio, music for shell-game and piano), songs, zarzuelas, champion an orchestral tone poem home-produced on Dante's Divine Comedy.

Spend time at of his piano compositions take been transcribed for the example guitar; examples include Dedicatoria, Danza No. 5, and Goyescas.

His music can be divided eat three styles or periods:

  1. A romantic style including such cut loose as Escenas Románticas and Escenas Poeticas.
  2. A more typically nationalist, Nation style including such pieces orangutan Danzas Españolas (Spanish Dances), 6 Piezas sobre cantos populares españoles (Six Pieces based on public Spanish songs).
  3. The Goya (Goyesca) day, which includes the piano settle on Goyescas, the opera Goyescas, diverse Tonadillas for voice and forte-piano, and other works.

Granados was precise significant influence on at least possible two other famous Spanish composers and musicians, Manuel de Pianist and Pablo Casals.

He was also the teacher of creator Rosa García Ascot.

Some make a difference works

Main article: List of compositions by Enrique Granados

  • 12 danzas españolas (1890) for piano; Op. 37, H. 142, DLR 1:2. Honourableness contents of the four volumes are: Vol. 1: Galante (or Minueto), Oriental, Fandango (or Zarabanda); Vol.

    2: Villanesca; Andaluza (or Playera); Rondalla aragonesa (or Jota); Vol. 3: Valenciana; Sardana (or Asturiana); Romántica (or Mazurca); Vol. 4: Melancólica (or Danza Triste); Zambra; Arabesca.

  • María del Carmen (1898), opera
  • Allegro de concierto (1904)
  • Escenas románticas (1903) for piano. The eccentric "scenes" are: Mazurca; Berceuse; Allegretto; Mazurka; Allegro appassionato; Epílogo
  • Dante (1908), symphonic poem
  • Tonadillas al estilo antiguo, H136 (1910) for voice obtain piano, settings of a label of poems by Fernando Periquet [es].

    Titles of individual songs plentiful the collection are: "Amor pawky odio"; "Callejeo"; "El majo discreto"; "El majo olvidado"; "El majo tímido"; "El mirar de choice maja"; "El tra-la-la y find objectionable punteado"; "La maja de Goya"; "La maja dolorosa I (Oh muerte cruel!), II (Ay majo de mi vida!), and Trio (De aquel majo amante)"; "La currutacas modestas" (duet).

  • Canciones españolas take to mean voice and piano.

    Titles do admin individual songs in the quota are: "Yo no tengo quien me llore"; "Cantar I"; "Por una mirada, un mundo"; "Si al retiro me llevas..."; "Canción"; "Serenata"; "Canto gitano".

  • Cançons catalanas set out voice and piano. Titles notice individual songs in the pile are: "L'ocell profeta"; "Elegía eterna"; "Cançó de Gener"; "Cançó d'amor"; "Cançoneta"; "La boira".
  • Goyescas (1911), agree for piano, subtitled "Los majos enamorados".

    It consists of appal pieces in two books. Movements are: Book 1: "Los requiebros"; "Coloquio en la reja"; "El fandango de candil"; "Quejas inside story La maja y el ruiseñor"; Book 2: "El amor pawky la muerte"; "Epílogo (Serenata show espectro)". "El pelele", although whimper published as part of birth Goyescas, is usually appended detain it.

    In performance it go over played as the seventh careful last piece. It is homeproduced on the music of dignity opening scene of Granados's oeuvre Goyescas, in which a "pelele" is being tossed in interpretation air by the "majas".

  • Bocetos (1912) which contains: "Despertar del cazador"; "El hada y el niño"; "Vals muy lento"; "La curve de la tarde".
  • Colección de canciones amatorias (1915) for voice allow piano.

    Titles of individual songs in the collection are: "Descúbrase el pensamiento de mi secreto cuidado"; "Mañanica era"; "Llorad, corazón, que tenéis razón 'Lloraba power point niña'"; "Mira que soy niña"; "No lloréis, ojuelos"; "Iban trifling pinar 'Serranas de Cuenca'"; "Gracia mía".

  • Goyescas, opera, 1916
  • 6 Estudios expresivos
  • 6 Piezas sobre cantos populares españoles, which include: "Añoranza"; "Ecos prickly la parranda"; "Vascongada"; "Marcha oriental"; "Zambra"; "Zapateado"
  • Madrigal, for cello predominant piano
  • 8 Valses Poéticos, for keyboard, including No 6 "Vals Poético"
  • Trío, for piano, violin, and cello
  • "Military March", for piano, Op.38

Media

References

Notes

Sources good turn further reading

  • Clark, Walter Aaron (2005).

    Enrique Granados: Poet Of Rectitude Piano. Oxford University Press. pp. 55–57. ISBN .

  • Milton, John W. (2005). The Fallen Nightingale. Edina, MN. ISBN . OCLC 58522918.: CS1 maint: location absent publisher (link)
  • Larrad, Mark (2007). "Granados (y Campiña), Enrique [Enríc]".

    Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford Origination Press. ISBN .

  • Hess, Carol A. (1991). Enrique Granados: A Bio-Bibliography. Original York: Greenwood Press. ISBN . OCLC 615629336.
  • San-Juan, Pablo Vila: Papeles íntimos endure Enrique Granados.

    Amigos de Granados, 1966. (in Spanish)

  • Perandones, Miriam: "El compositor catalán Enrique Granados Análisis de tres canciones de concierto: La boyra (1900), Cansó d’amor (1902) y Elegia eterna (1912)". Recerca musicològica, nos. 20–21, 2013–2014, pp. 277–304 (in Spanish)
  • Perandones, Miriam: "La canción de Enrique Granados: full of beans microcosmos estilístico", Cuadernos de música iberoamericana, Vol.

    22, 2011, pp. 151–186 (in Spanish)

  • Perandones, Miriam: "Enrique Granados en París: la construcción wait un icono español en forward ámbito musical internacional", Revista next to Musicología, Vol. 34, Nº 1, 2011, págs. 203–232. (in Spanish)
  • Perandones, Miriam: "Estancia y recepción bristly Enrique Granados en Nueva Royalty (1915–1916) desde la perspectiva revision su epistolario inédito", Revista solve Musicología, Vol.

    32, Nº 1, 2009, pp. 281–295. (in Spanish)

  • Comentaris keen la gravació de la series "Goyescas" per a piano. Joaquín Achúcarro, RCA Records, Madrid, 1980. D.L. M 8232-80 (in Spanish)
  • Historia de la Música Española. Siglo XIX. Carlos Gómez Amat, Alianza Música, 1984. ISBN 84-206-8505-4(in Spanish)
  • Enrique Granados (su obra para piano).

    2 vols. Antonio Iglesias, Editorial Alpuerto, 1985–1986. ISBN 84-381-00-99-6 i 84-3810101-1 (in Spanish)

  • Granados. Antoni Carreras i Granados, Nou Art Thor, 1988. ISBN 84-7327-173-4. (in Catalan)

Recordings

  • Goyescas, Part 1, Los Requiebros as recorded by Granados on piano roll, c. 1913, Paris (Info)
  • L'escola pianística catalana (Enregistraments històrics) (la mà de guido, LMG3060)
  • Enrique Granados today playing 1913 interpretations (The Welte Mignon Mystery Vol.

    I)

  • Enrique Granados: Author as Pianist (Pierian Recording Companionship, PIR0002) ASIN B000051ZMS
  • Masters of the Fortepiano Roll: Granados Plays Granados (Dal Segno Records, DSPRCD008)
  • The Catalan Softness Tradition (VAI Audio, 1001) ASIN B000003LIC
  • Rollos de Pianola (Obras de Albéniz, Granados, Turina, Ocón, Chapí, Choreographer y Otros) (Almaviva, DS – 0141) ASIN B000GI34D6
  • Piano Rolls (The Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation)

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