Enrique Granados
Late Romantic · 1867–1916
Enrique Granados was a Catalan pianist who spent his working life in Barcelona, performing, teaching, and running a piano school he founded there. His music is steeped in the sounds of Spain, above all the Madrid of the painter Goya, whose scenes inspired his piano suite Goyescas.
He expanded Goyescas into an opera, and its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in January 1916 took him across the Atlantic for the first time; he was afraid of sea travel and had to be talked into going. On the journey home, the passenger ferry Sussex was torpedoed in the English Channel, and Granados drowned at 48.
Start with the 12 Spanish Dances, the short piano pieces that first made him known, then Goyescas, where his playing style and his love of Goya come together.
94 works in the catalog, across 4 genres. Log what you listen to with Opus, the classical music journal for iPhone.
Chamber
- Danza Espaqola no. 6, for guitar
- Escena religiosa, for violin, organ, piano, and timbales, H.53
- Intermezzo
- Quintet for Piano and Strings in G minor, H.112
- Romanza for Violin and Piano, H.115
- Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano, op. 50, H.140
- Valses Poeticos, for guitar
- Violin Sonata, H.127
Keyboard
- 12 Spanish Dances, op. 37, H.142
- Goyescas, H.63
- 2 Impromptus, H.144
- 2 Military Marches, H.145
- 4 Melodías, DLR 3:10
- 6 Escenas románticas, H.57, DLR 5:7
- 7 Escenas infantiles, H.54, "7 Childhood Scenes"
- 7 Estudios
- 7 Valses poéticos, H.147, DLR 7:8
- A la antigua; Bourrée, H.1
- A la cubana, op. 36, H.2
- A la pradera, op. 35, H.3
- Album: Paris, 1888, H.4
- Allegro appassionata, H.5
- Allegro de concierto in C major, op. 46, H.6, DLR 5:8
- Andalucía-Petenera, DLR 3:6
- Andaluza: Andantino, quasi allegretto, for piano
- Apariciones: Valses románticos, DLR 7:5
- Aparición, H.10, DLR 3:18
- Arabesca, H.11
- Arabesca: Largo a piaacer, for piano
- Barcarola, op. 45, H.14
- Bocetos: Colección de 4 obras fáciles, H.16
- Bolero: Andante, for piano
- Canción morisca, H.22
- Canto del pescador, DLR 3:8
- Capricho español, op. 39, H.30
- Carezza, op. 38, H.31
- Cartas de amor: 4 Valses íntimos, op. 44, H.32
- Clothilde H.35
- Cuentos de la juventud, op. 1, "Scenes of Childhood"
- Dans le bois, DLR 3:11
- Danza característica, H.41
- Danza lenta, op. 37, H.44
- Dolora in A minor, H.48
- Elvira, H.51
- En la aldea, H.52
- Escenas poéticas, Series 1, H.55
- Escenas poéticas, Series 2, H.56
- Estudio, H.58
- Estudios Expresivos, H.124
- Exquise, H.59
- Exquise, H 59, DLR 7:7
- Fandango: Energico, for piano
- Fantasia: Cheherezada
- Galante: Allegro, for piano
- Goyescas, H.64, DLR 2:4
- Illusory Serenade
- Impromptu, op. 39, H.70
- Improvisation on Themes of 12 Spanish Dances
- Jácara, op. 14, H.74
- L'Himne dels morts, H.67
- La Berceuse, DLR 3:9
- La góndola: Escena poética, DLR 3:25
- La sirena H.123
- Libro de horas, H.77
- Los soldados de cartón, H.126
- Marcha Militares, H.82
- María del Carmen,, H.84
- Mazurka in A minor, H.86
- Mazurka in E flat major, H.87
- Melancólica: Allegretto, for piano
- Minuetto, for pedal piano, H.92, DLR 3:17
- Moresque y canción árabe, H.95
- Oriental: canción variada, intermedio, y final, H.101
- Paisaje, H.104
- Parranda-Murcia, DLR 1:4
- Pastoral, DLR 3:12
- Países soñados: palacio encantado en el mar, leyenda, DLR 5:9
- Piano Sonata in A, DLR 6:1
- Preludio in D
- Rapsodia aragonesa, H.113
- Romántica: Molto allegro brillante, for piano
- Rondella Aragonesa: Allegretto, poco a poco accelerando, for piano
- Rêverie-improvisation, H.114
- Sardana H.118
- Serenata, DLR 3:20
- Valenciana: Allegro arioso, for piano
- Valse de concert, op. 35, H.146
- Valses sentimentales, DLR 8:4.1-10
- Villanesca: Allegretto, alla pastorale, for piano
Stage
- Goyescas, opera, H. 65
Vocal
- 7 Canciónes amatorias, H.24
- 12 Tonadillas al estilo antiguo, H.136
- Cant de les estrelles, for chorus, piano, and organ, H.28
- Salve regina, for 4 voices and organ
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