10 Facts About Enrique Granados

Pantaleon Enrique Joaquin Granados y Campina, commonly known as Enric Granados in Catalan or Enrique Granados in Spanish, was a composer of classical music, and concert pianist from Catalonia, Spain.

Pantaleon Enrique Joaquin Granados Campina was born in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, the son of Calixto Jose de la Trinidad Granados y Armenteros, a Spanish army captain who was born in Havana, Cuba, and Enriqueta Elvira Campina de Herrera, from Santander, Spain.

Enrique Granados was unable to become a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but he was able to take private lessons with a conservatoire professor, Charles-Wilfrid de Beriot, whose mother, the soprano Maria Malibran, was of Spanish ancestry.

In 1903, Enrique Granados participated in a competition organized by Tomas Breton of the Madrid Royal Conservatory, which awarded a considerable sum of 500 pesetas for the best "concert allegro" for solo piano.

In 1911 Enrique Granados premiered his suite for piano Goyescas, which became his most famous work.

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Enrique Granados wrote an opera based on the subject in 1914, but the outbreak of World War I forced the European premiere to be canceled.

Enrique Granados refused to leave her and positioned her on a small life raft on which she knelt and he clung.

Personal papers of Enrique Granados are preserved in, among other institutions, the National Library of Catalonia.

Enrique Granados wrote piano music, chamber music, songs, zarzuelas, and an orchestral tone poem based on Dante's Divine Comedy.

Enrique Granados was a significant influence on at least two other famous Spanish composers and musicians, Manuel de Falla and Pablo Casals.