Romanticism · Spain
1867 – 1916
Lleida - Channel de la Mancha
Review
Pianist formed in Barcelona and Paris, founded his own academy in Barcelona in 1901. Goya's painting inspired his most ambitious work, Goyescas, first for piano and then turned into opera.
After the opera premiered at the Metropolitan of New York in 1916, the ship on which he returned, Sussex, was torpedoed on the Channel of the Mancha. Granados died in the water to try to save his wife.
Main works
- Spanish dances, with «Andaluza» (v. 1890)
- Poetic waltz
- Opera Maria del Carmen (1898)
- Allegro de concert (1903)
- Goyesca for piano, with «Complaints, or mash and nightingale» (1911)
- Old-style tonadillas (1913)
- Opera Goyesca, with its Intermezzo (1916)
