Enrique Granados
1867 — 1916
Enric Granados i Campiña, born Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados Campiña was a Spanish and Catalan composer and pianist. Along with Isaac Albéniz, Joaquin Malats and other pianists, he was part of the modern Catalan school of piano, initiated by Pere Tintorer.
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Enrique Granados y Campina, an impressionistic Spanish composer, received his early training under Pujol in Barcelona and Pedrell in Madrid between 1884 and 1887, later attending de Beriot’s class at the Paris Conservatory, though intermittently due to ill-health, according to Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1920). His zarzuela, Maria del Carmen, premiered at the Royal Theater in Madrid in 1898, and a portion of Folleto was performed in Barcelona in 1903. Granados’s most significant work, Goyescas, originated in 1899. Dissatisfied with its initial form, he first adapted it into a piano suite, which was performed in America by Schelling. Later, he rewrote Goyescas as an opera with a new libretto by Fernando Periquet. Though accepted by the Paris Grand-Opéra for the 1914-15 season, its production was canceled due to the war. The opera ultimately had its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York on January 28, 1916, marking the first Spanish opera sung in Spanish to be performed in the United States. Both Granados and his librettist were present for its five performances, which met with “fair success,” as Grove’s (1920) notes. The eminent Italian operatic baritone Giuseppe De Luca assisted at this premiere, according to The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1924). Tragically, Granados died at sea on March 24, 1916, while escaping from the ‘Sussex,’ which had been torpedoed by a German submarine.