Enrique Granados

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12 Danzas españolas

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Granados - 12 Danzas españolas

  • Granados - Spanish Dance No. 5, Andaluza
  • Recorded, produced and published by: Gregor Quendel
    The arrangement is based on the notes by. M. Welters
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Granados’ 12 Danzas españolas (Spanish Dances), composed in 1890, is a set of twelve piano pieces that reflect various traditional Spanish dance forms. The work includes a range of styles such as the flamenco, fandango, and seguidilla. Each dance is distinct in character, highlighting the rhythms and melodies of Spanish folk music. 

Granados wrote piano music, chamber music (a piano quintet, a piano trio, music for violin and piano), songs, zarzuelas, and an orchestral tone poem based on Dante's Divine Comedy. Many of his piano compositions have been transcribed for the classical guitar; examples include Dedicatoria, Danza No. 5, and Goyescas.

His music can be divided into three styles or periods:

  1. A romantic style including such pieces as Escenas Románticas and Escenas Poeticas.

  2. A more typically nationalist, Spanish style including such pieces as Danzas Españolas (Spanish Dances), 6 Piezas sobre cantos populares españoles (Six Pieces based on popular Spanish songs).

  3. The Goya (Goyesca) period, which includes the piano suite Goyescas, the opera Goyescas, various Tonadillas for voice and piano, and other works.

Granados was a significant influence on at least two other famous Spanish composers and musicians, Manuel de Falla and Pablo Casals. He was also the teacher of composer Rosa García Ascot.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_Granados / License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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