12 Danzas Españolas

The Doce Danzas españolas (Twelve Spanish dances) for piano is a series of pieces written by Enrique Granados. The exact composition date of the pieces is unknown, though Granados himself stated that he wrote the majority of them when he was 16 (in 1883). These dances display influences from a variety of Spanish genres, and, consequently, lend themselves to being arranged as guitar pieces, which has been done multiple times. ------------------------- Enrique Granados Campiña (27 July 1867 – 24 March 1916) was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, is representative of musical nationalism. Enrique Granados Campiña was born in Lleida, Spain, the son of Calixto Granados, a Spanish army captain, and Enriqueta Campiña. 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 Bériot, whose mother, the soprano Maria Malibran, was of Spanish ancestry. Bériot insisted on extreme refinement in tone production, which strongly influenced Granados’s own teaching of pedal technique. He also fostered Granados's abilities in improvisation.[2] 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 opera María del Carmen, which attracted the attention of King Alfonso XIII. Twelve Spanish Dances, Op.37 - no 1 : 0:00-3:16 Twelve Spanish Dances, Op.37 - no 2 : 3:16-8:06 Twelve Spanish Dances, Op.37 - no 3 : 8:06-12:30 Twelve Spanish Dances, Op.37 - no 4 : 13:30-19:26 Twelve Spanish Dances, Op.37 - no 5 : 19:26-23:04 Twelve Spanish Dances, Op.37 - no 6 : 23:04-28:46 Twelve Spanish Dances, Op.37 - no 7 : 28:46-33:40 Twelve Spanish Dances, Op.37 - no 8 : 33:40-38:48 Twelve Spanish Dances, Op.37 - no 9 : 38:48-44:57 Twelve Spanish Dances, Op.37 - no 10: 44:57-49:09 Twelve Spanish Dances, Op.37 - no 11: 49:09-55:16 Twelve Spanish Dances, Op.37 - no 12: 55:16-60:09 Performer: Monica Alianello