Enrique Granados
Enrique Granados

Author: Walter Aaron Clark

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0195140664

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"Granados was among the leading pianists of his time, and his eloquence at the keyboard inspired critics to dub him the "poet of the piano." In Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano, Walter Aaron Clark offers the first substantive study in English of this virtuoso pianist, composer, and music pedagogue. While providing detailed analyses of his major works for voice, piano, and the stage, Clark argues that Granados's art represented a unifying presence on the cultural landscape of Spain during a period of imperial decline, political unrest, and economic transformation. Drawing on newly discovered documents, Clark explores the cultural spheres in which Granados moved, particularly of Castile and Catalonia. Granados's best-known music was inspired by the art of Francisco Goya, especially the Goyescas suite for solo piano that became the basis for the opera. These pieces evoked the colorful and dramatic world that Goya inhabited and depicted in his art. Granados's fascination with Goya's Madrid set him apart from fellow nationalists Albeniz and Falla, who drew their principal inspiration from Andalusia. Though he was resolutely apolitical, Granados's attraction to Castile antagonized some Catalan nationalists, who resented Castilian domination. Yet, Granados also made important contributions to Catalan musical theater and was a prominent figure in the modernist movement in Barcelona.".

Enrique Granados
Enrique Granados

Author: Carol A. Hess

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1991-12-11

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0313369208

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Enrique Granados (1867-1916) was one of the first modern Spanish composers to achieve international recognition. During a 1916 visit to the United States his opera Goyescas was premiered by the Metropolitan Opera and his symphonic poem, Dante, by the Chicago Symphony. Granados was also especially admired in Paris, where he knew Saint-Saens, d'Indy, and Faure. He had composed a remarkable body of work and was also at the height of his career as a concert pianist at his untimely death while a passenger on a torpedoed British ship. The biographical study, the first in English, draws on primary sources in English, Spanish, French, Catalan, and other languages. This material is carefully documented in the extensive annotated bibliography along with contemporaneous and recent analytical studies and other sources. Granados's oeuvre presents cataloging problems due to his habit of reworking pieces, long-delayed publication, and arbitrary opus numbers. In the Works and Performances section, however, every effort has been made to offer publication dates, manuscript locations, and information on premieres. Representative arrangements of his works by other composers are also given. An appendix classifies the works by scoring. A selective discography is also provided, and all parts of the volume are fully cross-referenced and indexed. Granados is placed in the context of the international artistic scene at the turn of the century, and a chronology notes related events.

Goyescas, Spanish dances, and other works
Goyescas, Spanish dances, and other works

Author: Enrique Granados

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 048625481X

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Includes four of the great Spanish composer's most admired and most performed suites for the piano, including his greatest work, Goyescas, the popular Spanish Dances, and the less-well-known but beautiful Escenas romanticas and Escenas poeticas, all reprinted from the original Spanish editions. Table of Contents.

Masters of Spanish Piano Music
Masters of Spanish Piano Music

Author: Maurice Hinson

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published:

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781457439322

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For this volume, Hinson selected 16 piano works by Isaac Albéniz, Mateo Albéniz, Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados, Padre Felipe Rodriguez and Padre Antonio Soler to provide an interesting representation of Spanish keyboard music from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Hinson provides information about the important influence that folk instruments, primarily the guitar, had on these imaginative composers.

Granados - Romantic and Poetic Scenes
Granados - Romantic and Poetic Scenes

Author: Enrique Granados

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2010-10-07

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1609744470

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Enrique Granados (1867-1916), one of Spain's greatest twentieth-century composers, was a fine pianist and teacher who composed numerous works for the piano, his favorite instrument. His Escenas Poeticas (Poetic Scenes) and Escenas Romanticas (Romantic Scenes) are two suites which show pianistic influences of Grieg, Schumann and Liszt. These two suites are not as well known in America, nor are they as "Spanish sounding" as some of his other works; however, they still reflect the composer's original compositional style and beautiful melodic writing. the Escenas Romanticas contains six pieces from easy to difficult, while the Escenas Poeticas has three pieces mostly easy to medium in difficulty. This is the first transcription and arrangement of these works for guitar. They are written in standard notation only.

Encyclopedia of American Classical Pianists
Encyclopedia of American Classical Pianists

Author: Richard Masters

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-09-30

Total Pages: 487

ISBN-13: 1538171473

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This essential reference focuses on the lives, careers, and musical contributions of over 150 American pianists from early days of the nation until the present day. Richard Masters spotlights both modern and historical pianists—including women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ pianists who either never had the opportunity to win widespread acclaim but were top notch performers or who achieved important careers against heavy odds but were soon forgotten after their deaths, such as Augusta Cottlow, George Copeland, and Natalie Hinderas. This volume also gives attention to important collaborative pianists—none of whom have ever appeared in any volume on classical pianists—and influential pedagogues, some of whom never had significant performing careers but produced important students. Each entry explores an individual pianist’s life and career—from relevant biographical details to impact on American musical culture—and includes a selected list and brief discussion of existing and available recordings, if any. Additionally, an introduction situates these pianists into historical trends. Overseen by a blue-ribbon editorial board, Encyclopedia of American Classical Pianists: 1800s to the Present provides a comprehensive view of the depth and breadth of American pianistic achievement and serves as the most up-to-date work for students, piano departments, music libraries, researchers, and interested pianophiles.