Talk:Enrique Granados

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[edit] Granados' Death

My understanding is that Granados himself was saved (on a lifeboat, presumably). Then he saw his wife, jumped in, and drowned. That fact (if it is, indeed, a fact -- I'm going by memory here) makes the irony doubly potent. Here he was, afraid of the water -- then the ship is torpedoed, then he's saved, only to see Amparo in the water. Granados's music is so utterly Romantic that I have always felt that this story, utterly Romantic in itself, is very pertinent. (Normally a composer's death has little relevancy to his or her music.) Anyhow, just a thought. LorenzoPerosi1898 09:57, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

That's more or less the way it is in the article: he was in the lifeboat, saw Amparo, and despite his morbid fear of the water, jumped in anyway -- and they both drowned. I've read several variants on the story, and it's haunting indeed. Feel free to add/rewrite. I wonder if there's a decent biography of him in English? Maybe there's something citeable about his manner of death in relation to his musical style. I think he's a much underrated composer, but that's just my POV. Antandrus (talk) 15:08, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

i think his vals sentimental no. 6 from valses poetico is a beautifully appropriate soundtrack to this sad affair, which unfortunately occurred on my birthday. Karynlyn 04:11, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

That's an exquisitely beautiful piece; I've played it. You're right. Antandrus (talk) 04:13, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Names of Danzas Españolas

I have given alternative names for some of them (which are the names in any edition I have seen, except that in the cases of nos. 5 and 6, both names are used). In these editions, nos. 11 and 12 are given as "Zambra" and "Arabesca." Are they given in a different order here (intentionally or not) or is "my" "Zambra" "your" "Arabesca" and "my" "Arabesca" "your" "Bolero"? Kostaki mou 05:03, 7 June 2007 (UTC)