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Composer of the Week

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Enrique Granados (1867-1916)

Composer of the Week: Enrique Granados (1867-1916): Episode 1: The Maja and the Nightingale

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Episode 1: The Maja and the Nightingale

Enrique Granados (1867-1916)

The Maja and the Nightingale

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Donald Macleod explores the influence on Granados of the art of Goya.

Donald Macleod explores the influence on Granados of the art of Goya, plus aspects of his early life in Barcelona.

Granados grew up in Barcelona in tumultuous but exciting times, as the city became an industrial and commercial powerhouse, and a distinctively Catalan cultural centre. But the composer drew as much from the art of Madrid as from his home city, in particular the paintings of Goya and the majas and majos - streetwise, brazen, dashing men and women - that populate them. Donald Macleod looks at aspects of Granados' early life, including his piano studies in Paris, and some of the major influences on his work.

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Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Catalan composer and pianist Enrique Granados

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