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Enrique Costanzo Granados y Campiña ( July 27 , 1867 – March 24 , 1916 ) was a Spanish composer and pianist of Classical Music ; he is commonly considered to be a representative of musical Nationalism , and as such his music is in a uniquely Spanish style. He was also a talented painter in the style of Goya . LIFE He was born in Lleida (''in spanish Lérida''), Catalonia ( Spain ). 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, returning to Barcelona in 1889 . His first successes were at the end of the 1890s, with the Zarzuela ''Maria del Carmen'', which earned the attention of King Alfonso XIII . In on January 26, 1916 , and was a huge success for the composer. Shortly afterward he was invited to perform a piano recital for President Wilson . Unfortunately the delay incurred by accepting the recital invitation caused him to miss his boat back to Spain. Instead, he took a ship to Liverpool , where he boarded the ''Sussex'' for Dieppe, France . On the way across the English Channel, the ''Sussex'' was torpedoed by a German submarine, as part of the German unrestricted submarine warfare policy during World War I . In a failed attempt to save his wife Amparo, whom he saw flailing in the water some distance away, Granados jumped out of his lifeboat, and Drowned . Ironically, he had a morbid fear of water for his entire life, and he was returning from his first-ever series of ocean voyages at the time of his death. MUSIC AND INFLUENCE Granados wrote piano music, Chamber Music (a Piano Quintet , music for Violin and piano), songs, zarzuelas, and an orchestral Tone Poem based on Dante's Divine Comedy . Many of his piano compositions have been transcribed for the classical Guitar and are generally considered as some of the most beautiful music in the guitar repertoire: examples include ''Dedicatoria'', ''Danza No. 5''. Granados was an important influence on at least two other important Spanish composers and musicians, Manuel De Falla and Pablo Casals . WORKS
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