Juveniles 3

Given that Granados’ creative periods continually overlap, in order to organize the works of Granados’ Juvenilia this edition has grouped the works according to their chronological-biographical order and/or to their style.

The majority of the works in this section were composed between his student years in Paris (1887-1889) and the founding of the Academia Granados in 1901. Many of these works are quite similar to one another being sketches and brief compositions characterised by an unfocused formal structure, harmonic ambiguity and a tendency to place the final cadence on the dominant. The fact that many of these works were not highly developed would tend to suggest that they were never revised by the composer.

Typical of a young composer focusing on his own personal inspirations, Granados concentrated on themes of nature, oriental motifs, exploration of emotions, frequently making use of the «salonnier» (salon) genre.