Enrique Granados

Enrique Granados there Campiña ( Catalan Enric in ) (born the July 27th 1867, with Lérida - deceased the March 24th 1916, at sea) is a Compositeur and Spanish pianist .

Biography

Early pupil, it studies the piano with Barcelona under the direction of Francisco Jurnet and Joan Batista Pujo, which also counted Isaac Albeniz among its pupils. Granados obtains the first price of piano to the Academy of Barcelona in 1883. He will also study the composition with Felipp Pedrell, before leaving Spain in 1887 to go to Paris where he follows the courses of Charles de Bériot. It is there that it meets the last generation of French type-setters: Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Paul Dukas, Vincent d' Indy, Camille Saint-Saëns, etc

He returns to settle in Barcelona in 1889 to start there a brilliant career of interpreter and type-setter. He gives its first recital in 1890. Thereafter, it will divide the scene with many celebrities of the time, of which many names are familiar still today for us: Eugene Ysaÿe, Jacques Thibaud, Edouard Risler, etc Its first opera, Maria LED Carmen, is worth to him in 1898 a royal dedication. Nevertheless, the four following operas, composed between 1901 and 1911, will hardly have success.

In 1901, it founds Academia Granados. Granados is devoted as of this date to the teaching of the piano and pianistic interpretation. He was professor, inter alia, of the type-setter Roberto Gerhard. If it continues its career of type-setter in parallel, it will reconsider as such the front of the scene only in 1911, with the favor of the first hearings of its continuation for Goyescas piano. The title of the work which ensured its notoriety is a homage to the painter Francisco Goya, for whom Granados tested a sharp admiration: “Goya is the genius representative of Spain… We must, with the example of this beautiful figure, to try to contribute to the size of our country”.

In 1916, it accomplishes a voyage to New York to attend first American of its Goyescas opera, drawn from the continuations éponymes. The representations are a success. Granados completes its American round in enthusiasm. In March, on the way of the return, it embarks with his wife on board Sussex, which makes the connection from London to Barcelona. March 24th, 1916, the ship is torpedoed by a German submarine.

Comments

Enrique Granados forms, with Isaac Albeniz, Manuel of Falla and Joaquín Rodrigo, the quartet emblematic of the revival of the Spanish music at the end of the 19th century. On the Peninsula, the last decades had indeed rather been marked, in the musical field, by the progressive extinction of the traditional tradition. The Italian fashion, of the remainder, had little by little emptied the Spanish productions of their " genius national". Only the Flamenco perpetuated on the scene ibère an alive and dynamic tradition. The influence of Felipp Pedrell and its Cancionero Musical Popular Español was determining for the musical alarm clock of an at the same time erudite and enracinée Spanish music. Granados will make many rhythmic, melody and harmonic loans, with the popular music of its country.

Curiously, Granados written forever for the guitar, in spite of the eminently national character of this instrument. Many adaptations of its work were carried out to the XXe century for this instrument, in the shape of parts for guitar alone, either for two or four guitars.

Works

12 Spanish dances, for piano (1892)
Maria LED Carmen, opera (1898)
Goyescas, continuation for piano (1911)
Tonadillas, for voice and piano
Goyescas, opera (1916)
Sonatas for violoncello and piano
Trios for violin, violoncello and piano, COp 50
Dante, symphonic poem, COp 21

External bonds

Belle collection of free partitions on Sheet Music Files
Enric Granados I Campiña a broad sight on Granados and its work

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