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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 4: Love and Death

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Enrique Granados (1867-1916)

Love and Death

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Enrique Granados (1867-1916), Love and Death

Donald Macleod on the climax and conclusion of Granados's career - the opera Goyescas.

Donald Macleod focuses on the climax and conclusion of Granados's career - the opera Goyescas.

Granados' opera Goyescas, based closely on the piano cycle, was premiered in New York in 1916, and won him a warm reception there. The closing scene of the opera was inspired by Goya's Capricho El amor y la muerte, Love and Death, depicting a woman holding a dying man in her arms, which proved to be a premonition of his own death: as Granados and his wife made the journey home by sea, their ship, the Sussex, was torpedoed in the English Channel. A friend witnessed their tragic deaths: 'He embraced his wife, and they disappeared forever beneath the waves. In the panic and confusion, no one thought to or was able to help them.' Donald Macleod explores the genesis of Granados' opera, which proved to be both the climax and the conclusion of his career.

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

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