Manuel de Falla
Biography:
Manuel
de Falla was born in Cádiz, Spain in 1876. He took his
first piano lessons with his mother but later moved to Madrid to continue
studying piano as well as classical composition with Felipe Pedrell. His lessons with Pedrell inspired him to take
an interest in 16th century Spanish church
music, folk music, and opera. By the mid-1890s
Falla, who had decided to become a composer, studied piano in Madrid with José
Tragó, who was affiliated with Madrid Conservatory. Falla began
studying at the Madrid Conservatory where an award in 1905 for his piano
playing. In 1907 his opera, La Vida Breve, won a contest sponsored
by the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
In 1907
Manuel de Falla accepted an offer to tour France but ended up moving to Paris. In Paris he met Claude Debussy, Paul Dukas, and
Maurice Ravel from whom he received impressionist influences. He began to publish piano pieces and songs
during this period. As World War I began Manuel de Falla moved back to Spain
where he wrote two ballets, El
Amor Brujo and El
Sombrero de Tres Picos.
By the
end of the Spanish civil war in 1939 Manuel de Falla was in poor health and
disillusioned with Spain so he accepted an offer to conduct with the
Institucion Cultural Espanola in Buenos Aires. He also
worked on his cantata entitled Atlántida, which he never completed. In 1946 he died
of a heart attack in his sleep. His remains were placed in a
cathedral in Cádiz, Spain.
Information taken from: http://www.manueldefalla.com/en/argentina
Grove Music Online
Manuel de Falla. (discography):
Orgastra
·
Noches en los jardines de España (1909-1916)
·
El amor brujo. Versión
de concierto para orquesta (1915-1916).
·
El amor brujo. Versión
de concierto para pequeña orquesta (1917).
·
Suite nº 1 (1919-1921).
·
Suite nº 2 (1919-1921).
·
El amor brujo. Ballet. Versión
de concierto (1925).
·
Suite Homenajes (1938-1939).
·
Los amores de la Inés.
·
La vida breve.
·
El sombrero de tres picos (1919).
Chorus
·
Balada de Mallorca (Palma de
Mallorca, 1933).
Instrament solo
·
Nocturno (1896).
·
Mazurka en Do menor (1899).
·
Serenata andaluza (1900).
·
Canción (1900).
·
Vals capricho (1900).
·
Cortejo de gnomos (1901).
·
Allegro de concierto (1903-1904).
·
Pièces espagnoles. Cuatro
piezas españolas (1906-1909).
·
Fantasia Baetica (1919).
·
Homenaje. Pour "le tombeau
de claude debussy" (Granada, 1920).
·
Canto de los remeros del Volga
(del cancionero musical ruso)(Granada, 1922).
·
Pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas
(Granada, 1935).
Other Works
·
Cançó de nadal (1922).
·
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un
faune (1924).
·
Preludio (1924).
·
Obertura de El barbero de
Sevilla (1924-1925).
·
Ave María (1932).
·
L'amfiparnaso (Palma de
Mallorca, 1934).
·
Invocatio ad individuam
trinitatem (Granada, 1935).
·
Himno marcial (Granada, 1937).
·
Emendemus in melius (Granada,
1939).
·
Madrigal: prado verde y florido
(Granada, 1939).
·
Romance de Granada: qué es de
ti, desconsolado (Granada, 1939).
·
Tan buen ganadico (Granada, 1939).
·
¡Ora, sus! (Granada, 1939).
·
magnum mysterium (in
circuncisione Domini) (Villa del Lago, 1940-1942).
·
Tenebrae factae sunt
(responsorium) (Villa del Lago, 1940-1942).
·
Miserere mei Deus (salmo 50)
(Villa del Lago, 1940-1942).
·
In festo Sancti Jacobi (o Lux
et decus Hispaniae) (Villa del Lago, 1940-1942).
·
Benedictus (de la misa
"Vidi speciosam") (Villa del Lago, 1940-1942).
·
Gloria (de la misa "Vidi
speciosam") (Villa del Lago, 1940-1942).
·
Cançó de l'estrella (Villa del
Lago, 1941-1942).
·
Romance de Don Joan y Don Ramón
(Villa del Lago, 1941-1942).
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