Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano
Enrique Granados (1867-1916) is one of the most compelling figures of the late-Romantic period in music. During his return voyage to Spain after the premiere of his opera Goyescas in New York, a German submarine torpedoed the ship on which he and his wife were sailing and they perished in the waters of the English Channel. His death was mourned on both sides of the Atlantic as a stunning loss to the music world, for he had died at the pinnacle of his career and his late works held the promise of greater things to come. While Granados's tragic demise casts a pall over his life story, author Walter Clark reveals an artist of remarkable versatility and individuality and sheds new light on his enduring significance.
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Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano
Enrique Granados (1867-1916) is one of the most compelling figures of the late-Romantic period in music. During his return voyage to Spain after the premiere of his opera Goyescas in New York, a German submarine torpedoed the ship on which he and his wife were sailing and they perished in the waters of the English Channel. His death was mourned on both sides of the Atlantic as a stunning loss to the music world, for he had died at the pinnacle of his career and his late works held the promise of greater things to come. While Granados's tragic demise casts a pall over his life story, author Walter Clark reveals an artist of remarkable versatility and individuality and sheds new light on his enduring significance.
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Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano

Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano

by Walter Aaron Clark
Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano

Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano

by Walter Aaron Clark

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Overview

Enrique Granados (1867-1916) is one of the most compelling figures of the late-Romantic period in music. During his return voyage to Spain after the premiere of his opera Goyescas in New York, a German submarine torpedoed the ship on which he and his wife were sailing and they perished in the waters of the English Channel. His death was mourned on both sides of the Atlantic as a stunning loss to the music world, for he had died at the pinnacle of his career and his late works held the promise of greater things to come. While Granados's tragic demise casts a pall over his life story, author Walter Clark reveals an artist of remarkable versatility and individuality and sheds new light on his enduring significance.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780195349795
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 11/17/2005
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Walter Aaron Clark is Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Riverside, where he is founder and director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music. He is the author of a critically acclaimed biography of Isaac Albéniz (Oxford, 1999) and the editor of From Tejano to Tango: Latin American Popular Music (Routledge, 2002).

Table of Contents

Forewordix
Abbreviationsxvii
Map of Spainxviii
Preludio: Renaissance3
1A Born Pianist11
2The Emerging Composer26
3Works for Piano in a Central European Style48
4Teacher, Conductor, Organizer65
5Modernisme Catalan76
6Catalan Works with Texts by Apeles Mestres84
7La Maja de Goya110
8Goyescas121
9A World of Ideas146
Epilogo: The Legacy of Granados172
Appendix 1Genealogy185
Appendix 2List of Works187
Notes197
Bibliography241
Index of Works255
General Index257
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