What a great insight! The comparison to Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde. The world of simple cadences has been replaced by unresolved harmonies and chromatic passing tones. I never would have thought of the connection between Granados and Wagner. Both masterworks use the leitmotif paradigm. Very insightful. Gracias!
Thanks. Wagner’s Die Walküre and Götterdamerung were heard in Barcelona for the first time at the turn of the 20th century. I think Granados’s use of recurring leit-motives and themes in Goyescas can’t be separated from his exposure to the music of Wagner. After all Goyescas is a sort of opera for piano. I also read that Granados’s first performance of the first book of Goyescas was in 1910 at a private concert in Barcelona, where he also played Liszt’s B minor Sonata, another operatic work of Wagnerian scope, revealing Granados his vision connecting those two works together in a program.
What a great insight! The comparison to Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde.
The world of simple cadences has been replaced by unresolved harmonies and chromatic passing tones.
I never would have thought of the connection between Granados and Wagner. Both masterworks use the leitmotif paradigm. Very insightful.
Gracias!
Thanks. Wagner’s Die Walküre and Götterdamerung were heard in Barcelona for the first time at the turn of the 20th century. I think Granados’s use of recurring leit-motives and themes in Goyescas can’t be separated from his exposure to the music of Wagner. After all Goyescas is a sort of opera for piano.
I also read that Granados’s first performance of the first book of Goyescas was in 1910 at a private concert in Barcelona, where he also played Liszt’s B minor Sonata, another operatic work of Wagnerian scope, revealing Granados his vision connecting those two works together in a program.
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Gràcies Àngel!!
Very useful and interesting, thank you
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Gracias!!
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing. I've never heard these pieces.