Enrique Granados

[1] Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados Campiña was born in Lleida, Spain, the son of Calixto José de la Trinidad Granados y Armenteros, a Spanish army captain who was born in Havana, Cuba, and Enriqueta Elvira Campiña de Herrera, from Santander, Spain.

As a young man he studied piano in Barcelona, where his teachers included Francisco Jurnet and Joan Baptista Pujol.

Bériot insisted on extreme refinement in tone production, which strongly influenced Granados's teaching of pedal technique.

In 1903, Granados participated in a competition organized by Tomás Bretón of the Madrid Royal Conservatory, which awarded a considerable sum of 500 pesetas for the best "concert allegro" for solo piano.

Before 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 – his last recordings.

A delay in New York, incurred by accepting a recital invitation, caused him to miss his boat back to Spain.

His music can be divided into three styles or periods: Granados was a significant influence on at least two other famous Spanish composers and musicians, Manuel de Falla and Pablo Casals.