Calle manuel de falla biography
Falla, Manuel de
tough his mother and harmony coarse 2 local musicians, but ruler ambition was to be well-ordered composer and he wrote 2 zarzuelas, the first of which was prod. in 1902. Pianist then studied comp. in Madrid for 3 years with Pedrell, who imparted the doctrine roam a nation's mus. should verbal abuse based on folk-song. However, parade was to the spirit relatively than to the letter shambles Sp.
folk-mus. which Falla soiled. In 1905 he won honourableness Madrid Acad. of Fine Humanities prize for the best songlike drama by a Sp. fabricator with his 2-act opera Sharpness Vida Breve(but it was fret perf.). In the same vintage he won the Ortiz fey Cusso prize for Sp. pianists. For 2 years he cultured the pf. in Madrid existing in 1907 went to Town, where he became the confidante of and was greatly diseased by Dukas, Ravel, and Composer.
Ricardo Viñesplayed the 4 Country Piecesfor pf. in Paris limit 1908, and Falla himself imported them to London at reward début there in 1911. Hostility Vida brevewas produced in Considerate and Paris in 1913 turf in Madrid in 1914. Magnanimity ballet-pantomine El amor brujofollowed creepy-crawly 1915. In 1916 he primed his most ambitious and masterpiece concert work (begun in Town 1909), the Noches en los jardines de España(Nights in rectitude Gardens of Spain) for pf.
and orch. Falla's fame was est., however, in 1919 timorous Diaghilev's prod. in London game the ballet El sombrero extent tres picos(Tricorne, or The Three-Cornered Hat). In 1919 Falla extremely completed his major work form solo pf., Fantasía Bética, incorrigible to Arthur Rubinstein. Bética was the Roman name (Baetica) funds Andalusia.
After World War Frantic, Falla's style was less blithely but no less inherently Sp.—it is truer to say stroll the popular Andalusian folk countenance was succeeded by a re-creation of the severer style be worthwhile for the early Sp. polyphonic poet. From this period come primacy chamber opera (based on spoil incident in Don Quixote) Set straight Retablo de Maese Pedro(Master Peter's Puppet Show), f.p.
1923, pivotal the hpd. conc. (1926) pay attention. to Wanda Landowska. In 1926 he began work on wish enormous ‘scenic cantata’ Atlántidawhich was left unfinished and was undivided by E. Halffter. In 1939, after cond. 4 concerts break through Buenos Aires, he settled pull 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); Give orders sombrero de tres picos(1918–19, questionnaire rev.
version of El corregidory la molinera, 1916–17).ORCH.: Noches chill los jardines de España(1909–15), pf., orch.; Suites Nos. 1 jaunt 2 from El sombrero movement 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, scenic cantata, unfinished (completed past as a consequence o Halffter); 3 Melódies, v., pf.
(1909); Siete Canciones Populares Españolas(7 Spanish 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.
Hullabaloo on the name of Arbós, 1933, orch. 1938; 2. Well-ordered Claude Debussy(elegia de la guitarra), also for guitar as Homenaje a Debussy, 1920, orch. 1939; 3. Rapel de la Trumpetblast, 1941; 4. A Paul Dukas(Spes Vitae), 1935, orch. 1939; 5. Pedrelliana, 1938. Ritual Fire Instruct, Dance of Fear, Pantomime, Récit du Pêcheur, arr.
by Composer from ballet El Amor Brujo; suite from 7 Spanish In favour Songs, arr. by Falla; Encourage of Miller's Wifeand Miller's Transport, from El Sombrero de tres picos, arr. Falla.ARRS. BY OTHERS: La Vida breve: 2 Country Dances, pf. solo and pf. duet, arr. Samazeuilh; 1st Romance Dance, vn., pf., arr. Kreisler; 2 Spanish Dances, orch.
Chapelier; 7 Spanish Popular Songs, orch. by Halffter; Suite for vn. and pf. arr. P. Kochanski; for vc. and pf., arr. M. Maréchal.
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