Playing @yatesguitar wonderful arrangement of Granados’ Orientale, Spanish Dance No 2, live on the classical radio station in North Carolina

Enrique Granados Campiña ( Lérida , July 27 , 1867 - English Channel , March 24 , 1916 ) was a Spanish composer , pianist and educator linked to the modernist movements. [ 1 ] He is known mainly for his piano work, especially for the Goyescas suite (1911), on which he also based the opera of the same name.

He created the piano school in Barcelona, ​​which has produced such relevant figures as Frank Marshall , Monserrat Torrent , Narcisa Freixas , Rosa Sabater , Alicia de Larrocha and Douglas Riva. He is usually framed in modernist movements, especially in symbolism. [ 2 ] She died in the shipwreck of the Sussex ship , in the English Channel, when it was torpedoed by the German navy during the First World War .

The personal collection of Enrique Granados is kept in the Library of Catalonia and in the Museo de la Música de Barcelona .

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