- Granados composed this piece in 1897. It was originally scored for piano. Granados’s original title for the piece was L’Himne dels morts.1
- Granados was commssioned to write this piece by his colleague, Valencian composer Eduardo López-Chávarri. López-Chávarri included this work in a publication he was assembling, intended to raise money for the victims of a 1897 flooding of the Turia river.2 The work is dedicated to the 1897 Turia flood victims.3
- López-Chávarri arranged Granados’ piece for string orchestra.4
Sources
- Mark Larrad, “Granados (y Campiña), Enrique,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed October 15, 2019, accessed October 27, 2021, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000011603.
- Douglas Riva, liner notes to Granados: Piano Music, Vol. 7, Riva, Naxos 8.557141, CD, 2004.
- Carol A. Hess, Enrique Granados: A Bio-Bibliography(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991), 120.
- Ibid.
Cut IDs
22055