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JEAN-PHILIPPE COLLARD 21 Do you share Granados’s fascination with Goya? Did you feel you had to immerse yourself in his paintings and the world of eighteenth-century Spanish galanterie to find the inspiration for your interpretation of Goyescas ? I made no attempt to investigate the painter’s works in order to try to unravel the mystery of the composer’s inspiration. What Goya’s painting reveals in Granados’s style belongs to the composer’s inner world. The translation of it fromonemedium to another, a process in which his imaginary world played its full part, is here a personal act, which, in my opinion, does not require analysis. It seems to me that the approach, the musical commitment, the spontaneous style of Granados’s collection would be weighed down by a reflection of that kind, which would inevitably enforce a framework on its exuberance and punctuate it with codes. On the other hand, I don’t hesitate now to look at Goya’s works through the prism of Granados’s music . . .