Enrique Granados (1867-1916) spent most of his career in Barcelona. Much of his music encompasses two worlds, that of Catalan modernisme (a movement that has parallels with Art Nouveau), and the musics inspired by the world of artist Francisco de Goya (1746-1828). Granados cultivated modernisme in Barcelona, frequenting key locales of the movement, like the Quatre Gats café and the tertulias organized at Santiago Rusiñol’s home in Cau Ferrat, Sitges. He probably discovered early music during his Parisian years but it was under his teacher Felip Pedrell—the Catalan composer and pivotal figure in Spanish musical nationalism—that he developed a penchant for eighteenth-century music. Granados’s mature works were informed not only by his engagement with Scarlatti, but also by other Spanish music dating from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

FIMTE presents a Symposium, courses and a series of three concerts with the music of Granados and his world, and then traces a path back through some earlier musical landscapes that shaped the evolution of his unique style.