Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano

by Walter Aaron Clark

Book Overview

Enrique Granados (1867-1916) is one of the most compelling figures of the late-Romantic period in music. During his return voyage to Spain after the premiere of his opera Goyescas at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1916, a German submarine torpedoed the ship on which he and his wife were sailing, and they perished in the waters of the English Channel. His death was mourned on both sides of the Atlantic as a stunning loss to the music world, for he...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195140664
• ISBN13: 9780195140668
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.5"