Enrique Granados: Poet Of The Piano - Walter Aaron Clark

"Clark presents us with a multifaceted appreciation of Granados that combines biographical and analytical approaches, as well as deftly incorporating cultural history and critical reception of the works into the narrative.... In Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano, Walter Aaron Clark has written another landmark volume on a Spanish musician."--Michael Chrisoforidis, Music and Letters

"Already acclaimed internationally as the supreme authority on the life and works of Isaac Albйniz, Walter Aaron Clark now returns with an equally definitive portrayal of the career and compositions of Enrique Granados. Every page bears witness to the author's exhaustive command of primary and secondary source materials."--Robert Stevenson, Professor Emeritus of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles

"Walter Clark's brilliant biography of Enrique Granados is required reading for anyone interested in Spanish music. No comparable book of this scope on Granados has ever been published in any language. Based on exhaustive research, Dr. Clark's book is nothing short of vital to understanding the artistic forces and events that shaped one of Spain's greatest composers."--Douglas Riva, Pianist, Madrid, Spain

"Walter Clark's book on Enrique Granados combines the most recent scholarship with a reassessment of previous research on the composer and insightful analyses of selected works. Clark is not afraid to challenge previous generations of musicologists who knew little or nothing of Spain's rich musical traditions and whose prejudices prevented them from seeing what is original and enduring in the work of composers like Granados."--Joseph R. Jones, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky

"This biography will be a revelation to those who seek to know and understand music within Spanish culture during the closing decades of the 19th century. Astute history, a sensitive personal portrait, lucid musical analysis, and elegant descriptive prose are woven together to create a three-dimensional portrait of a seminal musician, a man deeply committed to his art. This study exemplifies musicological scholarship of the highest order."--William Summers, Professor of Music, Dartmouth University

"This is the book that admirers of Enrique Granados--and we are many--have been waiting for. Walter A. Clark tells the story of this Spanish composer with unabashed enthusiasm, illuminating Granados's late-romantic compositional style and offering readers fresh perspectives on Spain and its richly variegated music at the turn of the twentieth century."--Carol A. Hess, Associate Professor of Music, Bowling Green State University (Ohio), and author of Manuel de Falla and Modernism in Spain, 1898-1936 (University of Chicago Press, 2001) and Sacred Passions: The Life and Music of Manuel de Falla (Oxford University Press, 2004)

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