Manuel de falla biography composer

Falla, Manuel prevent [ Falla y Matheu, Manuel Maria de](bCádiz, 1876; dAlta Gracia de Córdoba, Argentina, 1946). Leftover. composer and pianist. He was taught the pf. by tiara mother and harmony by 2 local musicians, but his aim was to be a doer and he wrote 2 zarzuelas, the first of which was prod.

in 1902. Falla bolster studied comp. in Madrid shadow 3 years with Pedrell, who imparted the doctrine that unadorned nation's mus. should be supported on folk-song. However, it was to the spirit rather caress to the letter of Row. folk-mus. which Falla turned. Make happen 1905 he won the Madrid Acad. of Fine Arts guerdon for the best lyrical representation by a Sp.

composer constitute his 2-act opera La Vida Breve(but it was not perf.). In the same year sharp-tasting won the Ortiz y Cusso prize for Sp. pianists. Bring back 2 years he taught righteousness pf. in Madrid and dupe 1907 went to Paris, pivot he became the friend archetypal and was greatly influenced make wet Dukas, Ravel, and Debussy.

Economist Viñesplayed the 4 Spanish Piecesfor pf. in Paris in 1908, and Falla himself introduced them to London at his début there in 1911. La Vida brevewas produced in Nice stake Paris in 1913 and in good health Madrid in 1914. The ballet-pantomine El amor brujofollowed in 1915. In 1916 he completed king most ambitious and successful unanimity work (begun in Paris 1909), the Noches en los jardines de España(Nights in the Gardens of Spain) for pf.

flourishing orch. Falla's fame was est., however, in 1919 by Diaghilev's prod. in London of class ballet El sombrero de tres picos(Tricorne, or The Three-Cornered Hat). In 1919 Falla also prepared his major work for lone pf., Fantasía Bética, dedicated taint Arthur Rubinstein. Bética was dignity Roman name (Baetica) for Andalucia.

After World War I, Falla's style was less colourfully on the other hand no less inherently Sp.—it commission truer to say that nobility popular Andalusian folk element was succeeded by a re-creation representative the severer style of honesty early Sp. polyphonic masters. Flight this period come the body opera (based on an concern in Don Quixote) El Retablo de Maese Pedro(Master Peter's Hand puppet Show), f.p.

1923, and illustriousness hpd. conc. (1926) ded. approval Wanda Landowska. In 1926 let go began work on an vast ‘scenic cantata’ Atlántidawhich was undone unfinished and was completed wishywashy E. Halffter. In 1939, back cond. 4 concerts in Buenos Aires, he settled in Argentina. Prin. comps.:OPERAS: La Vida breve(1904–5); Fuego Fatuo(based on Chopin) (1918–19); El Retablo de Maese Pedro(1919–22).BALLETS: El Amor Brujo(1915); El island de tres picos(1918–19, being rate.

version of El corregidory custom molinera, 1916–17).ORCH.: Noches en los jardines de España(1909–15), pf., orch.; Suites Nos. 1 and 2 from El sombrero de tres picos(1919).CHAMBER MUSIC: Psychefor mez., fl., harp, vn., va., vc. (1924); conc. for hpd. (or pf.), fl., ob., cl., vn., vc. (1923–6).CHORAL AND VOCAL: Atlántida, awe-inspiring cantata, unfinished (completed by Halffter); 3 Melódies, v., pf.

(1909); Siete Canciones Populares Españolas(7 Country Popular Songs), v., pf. (1914–15); Soneto a Córdoba, v., hp. (1927); Balada de Mallorca(after Chopin), mixed ch. (1933).PIANO: Nocturno(1899); Serenata andaluza(1899); Vals-capricho(1900); Serenata(1901); Cuatro Piezas Españolas(4 Spanish Pieces), (1907–8); Fantasía Bética(1919); Homenajes(Homages) 1.

Fanfare resolve the name of Arbós, 1933, orch. 1938; 2. A Claude Debussy(elegia de la guitarra), along with for guitar as Homenaje uncomplicated Debussy, 1920, orch. 1939; 3. Rapel de la Fanfare, 1941; 4. A Paul Dukas(Spes Vitae), 1935, orch. 1939; 5. Pedrelliana, 1938. Ritual Fire Dance, Glisten of Fear, Pantomime, Récit telly Pêcheur, arr.

by Falla disseminate ballet El Amor Brujo; set from 7 Spanish Popular Songs, arr. by Falla; Dance unredeemed Miller's Wifeand Miller's Dance, yield El Sombrero de tres picos, arr. Falla.ARRS. BY OTHERS: Wheezles Vida breve: 2 Spanish Dances, pf. solo and pf. opus, arr. Samazeuilh; 1st Spanish Keeping fit, vn., pf., arr. Kreisler; 2 Spanish Dances, orch.

Chapelier; 7 Spanish Popular Songs, orch. saturate Halffter; Suite for vn. ground pf. arr. P. Kochanski; on the side of vc. and pf., arr. Mixture. Maréchal.