Spanish Dance No.4 (Villanesca)
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Product ID: LW1 CMA0158
By Enrique Granados
Publisher:
LudwigMasters
Arranger:
McAlister
Series:
LudwigMasters Full Orchestra Series
Genre:
Dances, Spanish, Folk Music
Line Up:
Symphony Orchestra
Duration:
5:20
Level: 3
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In the Spanish Dances, Granados constructed music in a Spanish folk-style. Villanesca, the subtitle of the fourth dance, suggests an older folk song with its dance or procession in accompaniment. The orchestration brings out the colors implied in the original piano edition
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Composer
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Enrique Granados i 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, representative of musical nationalism. Enrique Granados was also a talented painter in the style of Francisco Goya.
He was born in Lleida, Spain, the son of Calixto Granados, an 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 was able to take private lessons with a conservatoire professor, Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot, whose mother, the famed 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.[1] 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.
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