In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Granados and the second or maternal family name is Campiña.
Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados y Campiña (27 July 1867 – 24 March 1916), commonly known as Enric Granados in Catalan or Enrique Granados in Spanish, was a 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.[1]
Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados Campiña was born in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, the son of Calixto José de la Trinidad Granados y Armenteros, a Spanish army captain who was born in Havana, Cuba, and Enriqueta Elvira Campiña de Herrera, from Santander, Spain. 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 teaching of pedal technique. He also fostered Granados's abilities in improvisation.[2] 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 1903, Granados participated in a competition organized by Tomás Bretón of the Madrid Royal Conservatory, which awarded a considerable sum of 500 pesetas for the best "concert allegro" for solo piano. Granados submitted his Allegro de concierto, Op. 46, for which the jury declared him the winner with an almost unanimous vote. The win brought Granados to national attention.[3]
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. Before 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 last recordings.
Death
A delay in New York, incurred by accepting a 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. According to witness Daniel Sargent, Granados's wife, Amparo, was too heavy to get into a lifeboat. Granados refused to leave her and positioned her on a small life raft on which she knelt and he clung. Both then drowned within sight of other passengers.[4] However, according to a different account from another survivor, ""A survivor of the 1916 torpedo attack on a Cross channel ferry, Sussex, recognised Spanish composer Granados in a lifeboat, his wife in the water. Granados dived in to save her and perished."[5] The ship broke in two parts, and only one sank (along with 80 passengers). Ironically, the part of the vessel that contained his cabin did not sink and was towed to port, with most of the passengers, except for Granados and his wife, who were on the other side of the boat when it was hit. Granados and his wife left six children: Eduard (a musician), Solita, Enrique (a swimming champion), Víctor, Natalia, 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, and Goyescas.
His music can be divided into 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 a significant influence on at least two other famous Spanish composers and musicians, Manuel de Falla and Pablo Casals. He was also the teacher of composer Rosa García Ascot.
Tonadillas al estilo antiguo, H136 (1910) for voice and piano, settings of a group of poems by Fernando Periquet [es]. Titles of individual songs in the collection are: "Amor y odio"; "Callejeo"; "El majo discreto"; "El majo olvidado"; "El majo tímido"; "El mirar de la maja"; "El tra-la-la y el punteado"; "La maja de Goya"; "La maja dolorosa I (Oh muerte cruel!), II (Ay majo de mi vida!), and III (De aquel majo amante)"; "La currutacas modestas" (duet).
Canciones españolas for voice and piano. Titles of individual songs in the collection 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 for voice and piano. Titles of individual songs in the collection are: "L'ocell profeta"; "Elegía eterna"; "Cançó de Gener"; "Cançó d'amor"; "Cançoneta"; "La boira".
Goyescas (1911), suite for piano, subtitled "Los majos enamorados". It consists of six pieces in two books. Movements are: Book 1: "Los requiebros"; "Coloquio en la reja"; "El fandango de candil"; "Quejas o La maja y el ruiseñor"; Book 2: "El amor y la muerte"; "Epílogo (Serenata del espectro)". "El pelele", although not published as part of the Goyescas, is usually appended to it. In performance it is played as the seventh and last piece. It is based on the music of the opening scene of Granados's opera Goyescas, in which a "pelele" is being tossed in the air by the "majas".
Bocetos (1912) which contains: "Despertar del cazador"; "El hada y el niño"; "Vals muy lento"; "La campana de la tarde".
Colección de canciones amatorias (1915) for voice and piano. Titles of individual songs in the collection are: "Descúbrase el pensamiento de mi secreto cuidado"; "Mañanica era"; "Llorad, corazón, que tenéis razón 'Lloraba la niña'"; "Mira que soy niña"; "No lloréis, ojuelos"; "Iban al pinar 'Serranas de Cuenca'"; "Gracia mía".
6 Piezas sobre cantos populares españoles, which include: "Añoranza"; "Ecos de la parranda"; "Vascongada"; "Marcha oriental"; "Zambra"; "Zapateado"
Madrigal, for cello and piano
8 Valses Poéticos, for piano, including No 6 "Vals Poético"
Trío, for piano, violin, and cello
"Military March", for piano, Op.38
Media
"Danza No. 5" (1890)
Granados' "Danza No. 5" is one of the 12 danzas españolas (1890) for piano. It is commonly transcribed for classical guitar as presented here by Sharon Isbin at the White House Classical Music Student Workshop Concert (2009-11-04)
^Daniel Sargent, quoted in Lyn MacDonald, The Roses of No Man's Land. London: Macmillan, 1980. p. 141. A photograph of the empty drifting raft is among plates between pp. 64–5.
^David Walton, The Last Journey of Enrique Granados. Opus Publications p. 71.
San-Juan, Pablo Vila: Papeles íntimos de 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: un microcosmos estilístico", Cuadernos de música iberoamericana, Vol. 22, 2011, pp. 151–186 (in Spanish)
Perandones, Miriam: "Enrique Granados en París: la construcción de un icono español en el ámbito musical internacional", Revista de Musicología, Vol. 34, Nº 1, 2011, págs. 203–232. (in Spanish)
Perandones, Miriam: "Estancia y recepción de Enrique Granados en Nueva York (1915–1916) desde la perspectiva de su epistolario inédito", Revista de Musicología, Vol. 32, Nº 1, 2009, pp. 281–295. (in Spanish)
Comentaris a la gravació de la suite "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. ISBN84-206-8505-4(in Spanish)
Enrique Granados (su obra para piano). 2 vols. Antonio Iglesias, Editorial Alpuerto, 1985–1986. ISBN84-381-00-99-6 i 84-3810101-1 (in Spanish)
Granados. Antoni Carreras i Granados, Nou Art Thor, 1988. ISBN84-7327-173-4. (in Catalan)
Recordings
Goyescas, Part 1, Los Requiebros as recorded by Granados on piano roll, c. 1913, Paris (Info)
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For other people with the same name see Enrique Granados swimmer and Enrique Granados water polo In this Spanish name the first or paternal surname is Granados and the second or maternal family name is Campina Pantaleon Enrique Joaquin Granados y Campina 27 July 1867 24 March 1916 commonly known as Enric Granados in Catalan or Enrique Granados in Spanish was a composer of classical music and concert pianist from Catalonia Spain His most well known works include Goyescas the Spanish Dances es and Maria del Carmen 1 Enrique Granados Contents 1 Life 2 Death 3 Music and influence 4 Some important works 5 Media 6 References 6 1 Notes 6 2 Sources and further reading 7 Recordings 8 External linksLife Edit Enrique Granados and Andres de Segurola in 1915 Pantaleon Enrique Joaquin Granados Campina was born in Lleida Catalonia Spain the son of Calixto Jose de la Trinidad Granados y Armenteros a Spanish army captain who was born in Havana Cuba and Enriqueta Elvira Campina de Herrera from Santander Spain 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 Beriot whose mother the soprano Maria Malibran was of Spanish ancestry Beriot insisted on extreme refinement in tone production which strongly influenced Granados s teaching of pedal technique He also fostered Granados s abilities in improvisation 2 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 Maria del Carmen which attracted the attention of King Alfonso XIII In 1903 Granados participated in a competition organized by Tomas Breton of the Madrid Royal Conservatory which awarded a considerable sum of 500 pesetas for the best concert allegro for solo piano Granados submitted his Allegro de concierto Op 46 for which the jury declared him the winner with an almost unanimous vote The win brought Granados to national attention 3 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 Before 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 last recordings Death EditA delay in New York incurred by accepting a 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 According to witness Daniel Sargent Granados s wife Amparo was too heavy to get into a lifeboat Granados refused to leave her and positioned her on a small life raft on which she knelt and he clung Both then drowned within sight of other passengers 4 However according to a different account from another survivor A survivor of the 1916 torpedo attack on a Cross channel ferry Sussex recognised Spanish composer Granados in a lifeboat his wife in the water Granados dived in to save her and perished 5 The ship broke in two parts and only one sank along with 80 passengers Ironically the part of the vessel that contained his cabin did not sink and was towed to port with most of the passengers except for Granados and his wife who were on the other side of the boat when it was hit Granados and his wife left six children Eduard a musician Solita Enrique a swimming champion Victor Natalia and Francisco The personal papers of Enrique Granados are preserved in among other institutions the National Library of Catalonia Music and influence EditGranados 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 and Goyescas His music can be divided into three styles or periods A romantic style including such pieces as Escenas Romanticas and Escenas Poeticas A more typically nationalist Spanish style including such pieces as Danzas Espanolas Spanish Dances 6 Piezas sobre cantos populares espanoles 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 a significant influence on at least two other famous Spanish composers and musicians Manuel de Falla and Pablo Casals He was also the teacher of composer Rosa Garcia Ascot Some important works EditMain article List of compositions by Enrique Granados 12 danzas espanolas 1890 for piano Op 37 H 142 DLR 1 2 The 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 Romantica or Mazurca Vol 4 Melancolica or Danza Triste Zambra Arabesca Maria del Carmen 1898 opera Allegro de concierto 1904 Escenas romanticas 1903 for piano The individual scenes are Mazurca Berceuse Allegretto Mazurka Allegro appassionato Epilogo Dante 1908 symphonic poem Tonadillas al estilo antiguo H136 1910 for voice and piano settings of a group of poems by Fernando Periquet es Titles of individual songs in the collection are Amor y odio Callejeo El majo discreto El majo olvidado El majo timido El mirar de la maja El tra la la y el punteado La maja de Goya La maja dolorosa I Oh muerte cruel II Ay majo de mi vida and III De aquel majo amante La currutacas modestas duet Canciones espanolas for voice and piano Titles of individual songs in the collection are Yo no tengo quien me llore Cantar I Por una mirada un mundo Si al retiro me llevas Cancion Serenata Canto gitano Cancons catalanas for voice and piano Titles of individual songs in the collection are L ocell profeta Elegia eterna Canco de Gener Canco d amor Canconeta La boira Goyescas 1911 suite for piano subtitled Los majos enamorados It consists of six pieces in two books Movements are Book 1 Los requiebros Coloquio en la reja El fandango de candil Quejas o La maja y el ruisenor Book 2 El amor y la muerte Epilogo Serenata del espectro El pelele although not published as part of the Goyescas is usually appended to it In performance it is played as the seventh and last piece It is based on the music of the opening scene of Granados s opera Goyescas in which a pelele is being tossed in the air by the majas Bocetos 1912 which contains Despertar del cazador El hada y el nino Vals muy lento La campana de la tarde Coleccion de canciones amatorias 1915 for voice and piano Titles of individual songs in the collection are Descubrase el pensamiento de mi secreto cuidado Mananica era Llorad corazon que teneis razon Lloraba la nina Mira que soy nina No lloreis ojuelos Iban al pinar Serranas de Cuenca Gracia mia Goyescas opera 1916 6 Estudios expresivos 6 Piezas sobre cantos populares espanoles which include Anoranza Ecos de la parranda Vascongada Marcha oriental Zambra Zapateado Madrigal for cello and piano 8 Valses Poeticos for piano including No 6 Vals Poetico Trio for piano violin and cello Military March for piano Op 38Media Edit Danza No 5 1890 source source Granados Danza No 5 is one of the 12 danzas espanolas 1890 for piano It is commonly transcribed for classical guitar as presented here by Sharon Isbin at the White House Classical Music Student Workshop Concert 2009 11 04 Problems playing this file See media help Danza Espanola op 37 h 142 XII Arabesca source source Performed by William Riley Courtesy of Musopen Problems playing this file See media help References EditNotes Edit Larrad 2007 Harumi Kurihara Selected Intermediate Level Solo Piano Music of Enrique Granados A Pedagogical Analysis Clark 2005 p 55 57 Daniel Sargent quoted in Lyn MacDonald The Roses of No Man s Land London Macmillan 1980 p 141 A photograph of the empty drifting raft is among plates between pp 64 5 David Walton The Last Journey of Enrique Granados Opus Publications p 71 Sources and further reading Edit Clark Walter Aaron 2005 Enrique Granados Poet Of The Piano Oxford University Press pp 55 57 ISBN 0195140664 Milton John W 2005 The Fallen Nightingale Edina MN ISBN 1 59298 071 6 OCLC 58522918 Larrad Mark 2007 Granados y Campina Enrique Enric Grove Music Online 8th ed Oxford University Press ISBN 978 1 56159 263 0 Hess Carol A 1991 Enrique Granados A Bio Bibliography New York Greenwood Press ISBN 978 0 313 36920 9 OCLC 615629336 San Juan Pablo Vila Papeles intimos de Enrique Granados Amigos de Granados 1966 in Spanish Perandones Miriam El compositor catalan Enrique Granados Analisis de tres canciones de concierto La boyra 1900 Canso d amor 1902 y Elegia eterna 1912 Recerca musicologica nos 20 21 2013 2014 pp 277 304 in Spanish Perandones Miriam La cancion de Enrique Granados un microcosmos estilistico Cuadernos de musica iberoamericana Vol 22 2011 pp 151 186 in Spanish Perandones Miriam Enrique Granados en Paris la construccion de un icono espanol en el ambito musical internacional Revista de Musicologia Vol 34 Nº 1 2011 pags 203 232 in Spanish Perandones Miriam Estancia y recepcion de Enrique Granados en Nueva York 1915 1916 desde la perspectiva de su epistolario inedito Revista de Musicologia Vol 32 Nº 1 2009 pp 281 295 in Spanish Comentaris a la gravacio de la suite Goyescas per a piano Joaquin Achucarro RCA Records Madrid 1980 D L M 8232 80 in Spanish Historia de la Musica Espanola Siglo XIX Carlos Gomez Amat Alianza Musica 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 EditGoyescas Part 1 Los Requiebros as recorded by Granados on piano roll c 1913 Paris Info L escola pianistica catalana Enregistraments historics la ma de guido LMG3060 Enrique Granados today playing his 1913 interpretations The Welte Mignon Mystery Vol I Enrique Granados Composer as Pianist Pierian Recording Society PIR0002 ASIN B000051ZMS Masters of the Piano Roll Granados Plays Granados Dal Segno Records DSPRCD008 The Catalan Piano Tradition VAI Audio 1001 ASIN B000003LIC Rollos de Pianola Obras de Albeniz Granados Turina Ocon Chapi Alonso y Otros Almaviva DS 0141 ASIN B000GI34D6 Piano Rolls The Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Enrique Granados Biography and images www kreusch sheet music net Free Scores by Granados Personal papers of Enric Granados in the Biblioteca de Catalunya Free scores by Enrique Granados at the International Music Score Library Project IMSLP Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Enrique Granados amp oldid 1125396544, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
