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Monroe was an American actress, world-famous sex symbol, and cultural icon. The onetime model made her screen debut in 1948 and was at first patronized by critics, but she studied acting and eventually won more challenging roles. Her private life, including her marriages to baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller, has been subject to intense scrutiny, and her death from a barbiturate overdose at age 36 only increased her mystique. Why was her childhood particularly tumultuous? More… Discuss

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Goyescas: 3. Fandango By Candle Light
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Goyescas

This article is about the piano suite. For the 1916 opera, see Goyescas (opera). For the film, see Goyescas (film).

Goyescas, Op. 11, subtitled Los majos enamorados (The Gallants in Love), is a piano suite written in 1911 by Spanish composer Enrique Granados. This piano suite is usually considered Granados’s crowning creation and was inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya, although the piano pieces have not been authoritatively associated with any particular paintings. The suite forms part of the standard Romantic piano repertoire.

Writing of the Goyescas

The Suite

• Los requiebros (The Compliments)
• Coloquio en la reja (Conversation at the Window)
• El fandango de candil (Fandango by Candlelight)
• Quejas, o La Maja y el ruiseñor (Complaint, or the Girl and the Nightingale)
• El Amor y la muerte (Balada) (Ballad of Love and Death)
• Epilogo: Serenata del espectro (Epilogue: Serenade to a Spectre)
• El pelele: Escena Goyesca (The Puppet: Goya Scene)