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Enrique Granados
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27 July 1867 - 24 March 1916
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With the work of E. Granados associated with the revival of national Spanish music. Participation in the Renasimiento movement, which swept the country at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, gave the composer an impulse to create classical samples of music of a new direction. Renasimiento figures, in particular musicians I. Albéniz, M. de Falla, X. Turin, sought to bring Spanish culture out of stagnation, revive its identity, raise national music to the level of advanced European composer schools.
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With the work of E. Granados associated with the revival of national Spanish music. Participation in the Renasimiento movement, which swept the country at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, gave the composer an impulse to create classical samples of music of a new direction. Renasimiento figures, in particular musicians I. Albéniz, M. de Falla, X. Turin, sought to bring Spanish culture out of stagnation, revive its identity, raise national music to the level of advanced European composer schools. A great influence on Granados, as well as on other Spanish composers, had F. Pedrel, the organizer and ideological leader of Renasimiento, theoretically substantiated the ways of creating classical Spanish music in the manifesto “For Our Music”. Graiados received his first music lessons from a friend of his father. Soon the family moved to Barcelona, where Granados became a student of the famous teacher X. Puhol (piano). At the same time, he is engaged in composition at Pedrel. Thanks to the help of a philanthropist, a capable young man goes to Paris. There he was perfected at the conservatory of C. Beriot on piano and J. Massenet on composition (1887). In his class, Berio Granados met R. Viñez, later a famous Spanish pianist. After a two-year stay in Paris, Granados returns home. He's full of creative plans. In 1892 he performed his Spanish dances for the symphony orchestra. He successfully soloed as a pianist in a concert conducted by I. Albéniz, who conducted his "Spanish Rhapsody" for piano and orchestra. With P. Casals, Granados concerts in the cities of Spain. “The Granados pianist combined in his performance a soft and singing sound with brilliant technique: in addition, he was a subtle and skillful colorist,” wrote the Spanish composer, pianist and musicologist X. Nin. In 1900 he organized the Society for Classical Concertos in Barcelona, and in 1901 the Academy of Music, which he headed until his death. Granados strives to develop creative independence in his pianists. He devotes his lectures to this. Developing new techniques of piano technique, he writes a special manual "Method of pedalization". The most valuable part of Granados’ creative heritage is his piano compositions. Already in the first cycle of plays "Spanish dances" (1892-1900) he organically combines national elements with modern methods of writing. The composer highly appreciated the work of the great Spanish artist F. Goya. Impressed by his paintings and drawings from the life of Maho and Mach, the composer created two cycles of plays called Goyeschi. On the basis of this cycle, Granados writes the opera of the same name. It was the composer’s last major work. The First World War delayed its premiere in Paris, and the composer decided to stage it in New York. The premiere took place in January 1916. And on March 24, a German submarine sank a passenger steamer in La Manche on which Granados was returning to his homeland. The tragic death did not allow the composer to complete many plans. The best pages of his creative heritage captivate listeners with their charm, warmth. C. Debussy wrote: “I would not be wrong to say that listening to Granados, as if you see a long-familiar and beloved face.”