Enric Granados i Campiña was a Spanish and Catalan composer and pianist, born 27 July 1867 in Lleida and died 24 March 1916 when the ferry SS Sussex was torpedoed in the English Channel during World War I. He studied piano in Barcelona and Paris, and composition with Felip Pedrell, the father of Spanish musical nationalism. Along with Isaac Albéniz he was a leading figure of the modern Catalan piano school, founding his own piano academy in Barcelona (whose students included Frank Marshall and Alicia de Larrocha). He is best known for the piano suite Goyescas (1911), inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya, which he later expanded into an opera of the same name, premiered in New York in January 1916 shortly before his death.

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Granados was a central figure in the late-19th/early-20th-century Spanish nationalist movement, blending Romantic pianism with Spanish folk idiom in works like the 12 Danzas Españolas. Though he wrote almost nothing for guitar himself, pieces such as the Danzas Españolas and Valses Poéticos entered the classical guitar repertoire through transcription and remain staples of Spanish-guitar programming, continuing the same folk-nationalist vein cultivated by his contemporaries Albéniz and Tárrega.

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