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Born: 1867   Died: 1916   Country: Spain   Period: Romantic
One of the most colorful turn-of-the-century Spanish musicians, composer and pianist Enrique Granados is best remembered for his evocative solo piano works; his output also includes a great deal of orchestral music and six operas (only the last of which has gained any fame). Born in 1867 to an officer in the Spanish army, Granados received his first musical instruction from an army bandmaster. Further studies in Barcelona with Jurnet (piano) and Read more Pedrell (composition) prepared the young musician for a brief but highly influential stay in Paris (1887-1889), during which Granados worked under well-known Parisian pianist and teacher Charles de Bériot (son of the famous violinist of the same name). Granados' earliest mature work, the Valses poéticos of 1887, was completed around this time.

After returning to Barcelona in 1890 Granados spent the next decade building a dual career as pianist and composer, forming a successful piano trio with Belgian violinist Crickboom and the young Pablo Casals. His first opera, Maria del Carmen, was well received at its premiere in 1898, after which the Order of Carlos III (a Spanish knighthood) was bestowed upon Granados by a supportive government. Granados was quick to follow up on this success, and two more operas were produced in the next five years.

For the 1900 season Granados founded the Society of Classical Concerts (Sociedad de Conciertos Clásicos) in Barcelona, which, although short-lived, gave him the confidence to create his own piano school the following year (known as the Granados School, or Academia Granados). The school was a success, and Granados maintained his involvement with it until his death.

Granados was one of the great pianists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Virtually all his music relies heavily on the Catalan and Spanish folk idiom (e.g. Twelve Spanish Pieces, or Six Pieces on Spanish Popular Songs), which, along with fellow Spaniard Isaac Albéniz, Granados was instrumental in bringing to the attention of the contemporary European musical establishment. Goyescas, begun in 1902 but not finished until 1911, is perhaps his mightiest achievement. (Granados also produced an opera by the same name -- both the pianistic and operatic incarnations of the work take the striking visuals of Goya as their inspiration.)

In 1916, while returning from the U.S.A. (where the opera Goyescas had received a New York premiere on January 26, 1916, and where Granados had performed in the White House for President Wilson), the liner Sussex was torpedoed by a German U-boat. Among the casualties were Granados and his wife of 24 years. Read less

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Granados: Goyescas, 12 Danzas, 6 Escenas Romanticas / Heisser
Granados: Goyescas, 12 Danzas, 6 Escenas Romanticas / Heisser
Release Date: 05/22/2007   Label: Apex  
Catalog: 699843   Number of Discs: 2
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Granados: Goyescas / Garrick Ohlsson
Granados: Goyescas / Garrick Ohlsson
Release Date: 02/14/2012   Label: Hyperion  
Catalog: 67846   Number of Discs: 1
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Liszt: Sonata In B Minor; Petrarch Sonnets; Granados: El Amor Y La Muerte
Liszt: Sonata In B Minor; Petrarch Sonnets; Granados: El Amor Y La Muerte
Release Date: 02/12/2013   Label: Odradek  
Catalog: 303   Number of Discs: 1
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Work: Danzas (12) españolas for Piano, Op. 37: no 5, Andaluza

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    Guitar Magician / Andres Segovia
    Guitar Magician / Andres Segovia
    Label: Regis   Catalog: 1158 Release Date: 01/29/2013   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco,  Heitor Villa-Lobos,  Federico Moreno-Torroba,  Isaac Albeniz  ... 
    Performer:  Andrés Segovia
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    Orchestra/Ensemble:  New London Orchestra
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    Music By Turina, Rodrigo, And Granados
    Music By Turina, Rodrigo, And Granados
    Label: Centaur Records   Catalog: 3158 Release Date: 01/22/2013   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Joaquin Turina,  Joaquin Rodrigo,  Enrique Granados
    Performer:  Adrienne Kim,  Jorge Avila
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    Guitar Sensation - Tribute To Andres Segovia / Friedemann Wuttke
    Guitar Sensation - Tribute To Andres Segovia / Friedemann Wuttke
    Label: Profil   Catalog: 12036 Release Date: 09/25/2012   Number of Discs: 2
    Composer:  Isaac Albeniz,  Fernando Sor,  Joaquin Malats,  Enrique Granados  ... 
    Performer:  Andrés Segovia,  Friedemann Wuttke
    Conductor:  Igor Zhukov,  Nicolás Pasquet
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  New Moscow Chamber Orchestra,  Hungarian Chamber Philharmonic Pecs
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    Avie Records - 10th Anniversary
    Avie Records - 10th Anniversary
    Label: Avie   Catalog: 2265 Release Date: 07/10/2012   Number of Discs: 10
    Composer:  Johann Sebastian Bach,  George Enescu,  Gabriel Fauré,  George Frideric Handel  ... 
    Performer:  Monica Huggett,  Gonzalo Ruiz,  Luiza Borac,  Charles Owen  ... 
    Conductor:  Monica Huggett,  Harry Bicket,  Imogen Cooper,  Vasily Petrenko  ... 
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    Espana - De Falla, Granados, Albeniz / Michel Block
    Espana - De Falla, Granados, Albeniz / Michel Block
    Label: Piano Classics   Catalog: 31 Release Date: 05/08/2012   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Manuel de Falla,  Enrique Granados,  Isaac Albeniz
    Performer:  Michel Block
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    Espanoletas: Spanish Guitar Favourites From Five Centuries
    Label: Db Productions   Catalog: 146 Release Date: 04/24/2012   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Luis de Narváez,  Alonso de Mudarra,  Gaspar Sanz,  Fernando Sor  ... 
    Performer:  Marten Falk
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    My First Violin Album
    My First Violin Album
    Label: Naxos   Catalog: 8578215 Release Date: 03/27/2012   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Niccolò Paganini,  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,  Sir Edward Elgar,  Johann Sebastian Bach  ... 
    Performer:  Ilya Kaler,  Takako Nishizaki,  Jénö Jandó,  Alexander Jablokov  ... 
    Conductor:  Stephen Gunzenhauser,  Oliver von Dohnányi,  Kenneth Jean,  Dmitry Yablonsky  ... 
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Ferenc Sánta & His Gypsy Band
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    Classica Espanola / Maiburg, Von Wangenheim, Gula, Alarcon, Lama, Llorente, Brito
    Classica Espanola / Maiburg, Von Wangenheim, Gula, Alarcon, Lama, Llorente, Brito
    Label: Md&g (Dabringhaus & Grimm)   Catalog: 9101727 Release Date: 02/28/2012   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Enrique Granados,  Isaac Albeniz,  Omar Acosta,  Manuel de Falla  ... 
    Performer:  Juan Lama,  Wlodzimierz Gula,  Alberto Alarcón,  Anette Maiburg  ... 
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    Rudolf Ganz Am Klavier Und Als Dirigent
    Rudolf Ganz Am Klavier Und Als Dirigent
    Label: Guild   Catalog: 2377 Release Date: 02/14/2012   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Frédéric Chopin,  Franz Liszt,  Adolf Jensen,  Felix Mendelssohn  ... 
    Performer:  Rudolf Ganz
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    A Tribute To Fritz Kreisler
    A Tribute To Fritz Kreisler
    Label: Deutsche Grammophon   Catalog: 001637702 Release Date: 01/17/2012   Number of Discs: 2
    Composer:  Fritz Kreisler,  Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky,  Christoph W. Gluck,  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov  ... 
    Performer:  Ruggiero Ricci,  Brooks Smith,  Fritz Kreisler,  Haddon Squire  ... 
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    Libertes / Michel Tirabosco Trio
    Libertes / Michel Tirabosco Trio
    Label: Gall (Formerly Gallo)   Catalog: 1273 Release Date: 12/13/2011   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Astor Piazzolla,  Claude Bolling,  Jacques Ibert,  Isaac Albeniz  ... 
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Michel Tirabosco Trio
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    Bella Danza - Music Of The Dance / Bell' Alma Duo
    Bella Danza - Music Of The Dance / Bell' Alma Duo
    Label: Ten Thousand Lakes   Catalog: 130 Release Date: 11/11/2011   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Manuel de Falla,  Alexander Glazunov,  M. Roesgen-Champion,  Joseph Lauber  ... 
    Performer:  Kathy Kienzle,  Michele Frisch
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Bell' Alma Duo
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    Embrace / Seunghee Lee
    Embrace / Seunghee Lee
    Label: Summit Records   Catalog: 577 Release Date: 11/08/2011   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Robert Schumann,  Gabriel Fauré,  Gabriel Pierné,  Antonín Dvorák  ... 
    Performer:  Seunghee Lee,  Evan Solomon
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    Espana! / Mischa Maisky, Lily Maisky
    Espana! / Mischa Maisky, Lily Maisky
    Label: Deutsche Grammophon   Catalog: 4778100 Release Date: 11/02/2011  
    Composer:  Manuel de Falla,  Enrique Granados,  Pablo de Sarasate,  Isaac Albeniz  ... 
    Performer:  Mischa Maisky,  Lily Maisky
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    Late Night Classics: Music For Two Guitars
    Late Night Classics: Music For Two Guitars
    Label: Gift Of Music   Catalog: 1255 Release Date: 10/25/2011   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Enrique Granados,  Isaac Albeniz,  Gaspar Sanz,  Martin Vishnik  ... 
    Performer:  Sam Piha,  Martin Vishnik
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    Espana
    Espana
    Label: Decca   Catalog: 113 Release Date: 10/18/2011   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Emmanuel Chabrier,  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov,  Enrique Granados,  Moritz Moszkowski  ... 
    Conductor:  Ataulfo Argenta
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    Fiesta / Carmen Dragon, Hollywood Bowl SO
    Fiesta / Carmen Dragon, Hollywood Bowl SO
    Label: Emi Studio   Catalog: 63734 Release Date: 10/17/2011   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Jules Massenet,  Georges Bizet,  Sebastián de Iradier,  Mikhail Glinka  ... 
    Conductor:  Carmen Dragon
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
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    Evocations Of Spain
    Evocations Of Spain
    Label: Henry Dehlinger   Catalog: 5637842105 Release Date: 10/06/2011   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Isaac Albeniz,  Enrique Granados
    Performer:  Henry Dehlinger
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    The Original Jacket Collection - Julian Bream
    The Original Jacket Collection - Julian Bream
    Label: Sony   Catalog: 731621 Release Date: 10/04/2011   Number of Discs: 10
    Composer:  Girolamo Frescobaldi,  Mateo Pérez de Albeniz,  Domenico Scarlatti,  Domenico Cimarosa  ... 
    Performer:  Julian Bream,  John Williams,  George Malcolm,  Peter Pears
    Conductor:  Sir Colin Davis
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Julian Bream Consort
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    Goya: The Music Of Enrique Granados
    Goya: The Music Of Enrique Granados
    Label: Bgs (British Guitar Society)   Catalog: 116 Release Date: 08/09/2011   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Enrique Granados
    Performer:  Tom Kerstens
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    Guitar Favourites / Roland Mueller
    Guitar Favourites / Roland Mueller
    Label: Oehms   Catalog: 791 Release Date: 06/28/2011   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Carlo Domeniconi,  Leo Brouwer,  Yuquijiro Yocoh,  Enrique Granados  ... 
    Performer:  Roland Mueller
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    Mediterraneo / Milos Karadaglic
    Mediterraneo / Milos Karadaglic
    Label: Deutsche Grammophon   Catalog: 001557902 Release Date: 06/21/2011   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Isaac Albeniz,  Francisco Tarrega,  Anonymous,  Carlo Domeniconi  ... 
    Performer:  Milos Karadaglic
    Conductor:  Paul Watkins
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  English Chamber Orchestra
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    Casals Encores / Alban Gerhardt, Cecile Licad
    Casals Encores / Alban Gerhardt, Cecile Licad
    Label: Hyperion   Catalog: 67831 Release Date: 06/14/2011   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  David Popper,  Claude Debussy,  Benjamin Godard,  Giovanni Sgambati  ... 
    Performer:  Alban Gerhardt,  Cecile Licad
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    Mediterraneo / Milos Karadaglic [Special Edition CD+DVD]
    Mediterraneo / Milos Karadaglic [Special Edition CD+DVD]
    Label: Deutsche Grammophon   Catalog: 4779338 Release Date: 06/14/2011   Number of Discs: 2
    Composer:  Isaac Albeniz,  Francisco Tarrega,  Anonymous,  Carlo Domeniconi  ... 
    Performer:  Milos Karadaglic
    Conductor:  Paul Watkins
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  English Chamber Orchestra
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    Spanish Music For Guitar & Quartet / Wuttke, Minguet Quartet
    Spanish Music For Guitar & Quartet / Wuttke, Minguet Quartet
    Label: Profil   Catalog: 10051 Release Date: 03/29/2011   Number of Discs: 1
    Composer:  Luigi Boccherini,  Enrique Granados
    Performer:  Friedemann Wuttke
    Orchestra/Ensemble:  Minguet Quartett
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