La vida breve manuel de falla

Among Spain's most important musicians in the first half of the 20th century, composer Manuel de Falla held a prolific career writing for vocalists, orchestras, and stages. In his music he achieved a fusion of poetry, asceticism, and ardour that represents the spirit of Spain at its purest. Falla took piano lessons from his mother and later went to Madrid to continue the piano and to study composition with Felipe Pedrell, who inspired him with his own enthusiasm for 16th-century Spanish church music, folk music, and native opera, or zarzuela.

In Falla won two prizes, one for piano playing and the other for a national opera, La vida breve first performed in Nice, France, In he moved to Paris, where he met Claude Debussy, Paul Dukas, and Maurice Ravel whose orchestration influenced his own and published his first piano pieces and songs.

Amor brujo manuel de falla

In he returned to Madrid, where he wrote the music for a ballet, El amor brujo Love, the Magician; Madrid, , remarkable for its distillation of Andalusian folk music. All these works established Falla internationally as the leading Spanish composer. Falla then retired to Granada, where in he organized a cante hondo festival and composed a puppet opera, El retablo de Maese Pedro.

After he wrote little, living first in Mallorca and, from , in Argentina. Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Nov. Accessed 12 July Choose your instrument above, then watch a sneak peak at one of our exclusive courses on a work by. To unlock tonebase's expansive course library, start your day free trial to unlock s of courses, weekly live workshops, a vibrant community, and more!

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