Obras musicales de manuel de falla biography

In the great flowering of Spanish classical music at the start of the 20th century, first Albéniz, then Granados and finally Falla brought international sophistication to a musical world on the fringe of Europe.

Obras musicales de manuel de falla biography

They all spent crucial years in Paris, effectively the artistic capital of Latin Europe and the milieu of Debussy, Ravel and Dukas. And they had the genius to make thoroughly contemporary pieces out of distinctively Spanish material, giving the world a fresh perspective on their nation’s culture.

Falla, although never an especially prolific composer, brought this achievement to a climax. Unlike his predecessors he was Andalucian, not Catalan. The character of southern Spanish music – flamenco and the type of Andalusian vocal folk music known as cante jondo – is integral to his creative spirit.

Most dramatically it inspired El Amor brujo (‘Love, the Magician’, 1915), the powerful narrative of gypsy life which he first conceived as a theatre piece for flamenco singe