Guilhermina Suggia

Granados and Goya: Artists on the Edge of Aristocracy - by John W Milton

In this article, I will describe my approach to finding the information and assembling it in order to create a narrative of the last seventeen years of Enrique Granados's life. I will also indicate the extent to which I was able to rely on solid knowledge of the principal characters, and how I needed to employ intuition and serendipity to fill the gaps.

In no case do characters appear in a scene unless there is evidence they could have been physically present, for example, during several days in September, 1912 at Pablo Casals's beach house in Sant Salvador. Photos and diaries confirm the presence of Guilhermina Suggia, Donald Tovey, Mieczyslav Horszowski, Granados, and his wife Amparo; moreover, Casals's biographer H. L. Kirk records generally what occurred. Without audio or videotapes, however, the precise scenes and dialogue had to be imagined by the author.
In the entire 608-page narrative, only a handful of minor characters appear—the author's inventions. Most were given names, but in no case is their appearance inconsistent with the narrative line.

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