The composer's life ended tragically and prematurely. Granados went to New York for the premiere of Goyescas, expecting to sail directly back to Spain, but changing his plans when President Woodrow Wilson invited him to play at the White House. He sailed first for England, then took a second ship, the Sussex, bound for the French port of Dieppe. The Sussex was torpedoed by a German submarine on March 24, 1916. Granados was picked up by a lifeboat but went...