  thumbnail|enrique granados campiÃ±a enrique granados campiÃ±a (27 july 186724 march 1916) was a spanish pianist and composer of classical music.enrique granados, in the new grove dictionary of music and musicians, ed. stanley sadie. 20 vol. london, macmillan publishers ltd., 1980. isbn 1-56159-174-2 his music is in a uniquely spanish style and, as such, is representative of musical nationalism. == life ==  he was born in lleida, spain, the son of calixto granados, a spanish army captain, and enriqueta campiÃ±a. as a young man he studied piano in barcelona, where his teachers included francisco jurnet and joan baptista pujol. in 1887 he went to paris to study. he was unable to become a student at the paris conservatoire, but he was able to take private lessons with a conservatoire professor, charles-wilfrid de bÃ©riot, whose mother, the soprano maria malibran, was of spanish ancestry. bÃ©riot insisted on extreme refinement in tone production, which strongly influenced granadosâs own teaching of pedal technique. he also fostered granados's abilities in improvisation.harumi kurihara, selected intermediate-level solo piano music of enrique granados: a pedagogical analysis just as important were his studies with felip pedrell. he returned to barcelona in 1889. his first successes were at the end of the 1890s, with the zarzuela maria del carmen, which attracted the attention of king alfonso xiii. in 1911 granados premiered his suite for piano goyescas, which became his most famous work. it is a set of six pieces based on paintings of francisco goya. such was the success of this work that he was encouraged to expand it. he wrote an opera based on the subject in 1914, but the outbreak of world war i forced the european premiere to be canceled. it was performed for the first time in new york city on 28 january 1916, and was very well received. shortly afterwards, he was invited to perform a piano recital for president woodrow wilson. prior to leaving new york, granados also made live-recorded player piano music rolls for the new-york-based aeolian company's "duo-art" system, all of which survive today and can be heard â his very last recordings. the delay incurred by accepting the recital invitation caused him to miss his boat back to spain. instead, he took a ship to england, where he boarded the passenger ferry ss sussex for dieppe, france. on the way across the english channel, the sussex was torpedoed by a
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