Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Bio
Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados y Campiña was born in Lleida, Catalonia. His father was Cuban and his mother was Spanish. He studied in Barcelona and Paris and became an internationally renowned composer after winning a competition at the Madrid Royal Conservatory. He was tragically killed when the passenger ship he was crossing the Atlantic in was sunk by a German U-Boat in World War I.
Music
12 Spanish Dances
Goyescas
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