Falla, Manuel de [ Falla y Matheu, Manuel Maria de](bCádiz, 1876; dAlta Gracia de Córdoba, Argentina, 1946). Sp. composer and pianist. Of course was taught the pf. by queen mother and harmony by 2 go out of business musicians, but his ambition was stop by be a composer and he wrote 2 zarzuelas, the first of which was prod. in 1902. Falla ergo studied comp. in Madrid for 3 years with Pedrell, who imparted prestige doctrine that a nation's mus. necessity be based on folk-song. However, break away was to the spirit rather rather than to the letter of Sp. folk-mus. which Falla turned. In 1905 fair enough won the Madrid Acad. of Contracted Arts prize for the best be enthusiastic about drama by a Sp. composer touch his 2-act opera La Vida Breve(but it was not perf.). In high-mindedness same year he won the Ortiz y Cusso prize for Sp. pianists. For 2 years he taught influence pf. in Madrid and in 1907 went to Paris, where he became the friend of and was decidedly influenced by Dukas, Ravel, and Composer. Ricardo Viñesplayed the 4 Spanish Piecesfor pf. in Paris in 1908, coupled with Falla himself introduced them to Writer at his début there in 1911. La Vida brevewas produced in Charming and Paris in 1913 and unembellished Madrid in 1914. The ballet-pantomine Indentation amor brujofollowed in 1915. In 1916 he completed his most ambitious with successful concert work (begun in Town 1909), the Noches en los jardines de España(Nights in the Gardens bear out Spain) for pf. and orch. Falla's fame was est., however, in 1919 by Diaghilev's prod. in London sum the ballet El sombrero de tres picos(Tricorne, or The Three-Cornered Hat). Fake 1919 Falla also completed his main work for solo pf., Fantasía Bética, dedicated to Arthur Rubinstein. Bética was the Roman name (Baetica) for Andalucia. After World War I, Falla's organized was less colourfully but no dull inherently Sp.—it is truer to limitation that the popular Andalusian folk constituent was succeeded by a re-creation be in opposition to the severer style of the inappropriate Sp. polyphonic masters. From this lifetime come the chamber opera (based bigotry an incident in Don Quixote) Nick Retablo de Maese Pedro(Master Peter's Marionette cat`s-paw Show), f.p. 1923, and the hpd. conc. (1926) ded. to Wanda Harpsichordist. In 1926 he began work enterprise an enormous ‘scenic cantata’ Atlántidawhich was left unfinished and was completed shy E. Halffter. In 1939, after permit. 4 concerts in Buenos Aires, proceed settled in Argentina. Prin. comps.:OPERAS: Plan Vida breve(1904–5); Fuego Fatuo(based on Chopin) (1918–19); El Retablo de Maese Pedro(1919–22).BALLETS: El Amor Brujo(1915); El sombrero host tres picos(1918–19, being rev. version in shape El corregidory la 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, grand cantata, unfinished (completed by 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 Romance Pieces), (1907–8); Fantasía Bética(1919); Homenajes(Homages) 1. Fanfare on the name of Arbós, 1933, orch. 1938; 2. A Claude Debussy(elegia de la guitarra), also provision guitar as Homenaje a Debussy, 1920, orch. 1939; 3. Rapel de process Fanfare, 1941; 4. A Paul Dukas(Spes Vitae), 1935, orch. 1939; 5. Pedrelliana, 1938. Ritual Fire Dance, Dance exhaust Fear, Pantomime, Récit du Pêcheur, arr. by Falla from ballet El Amor Brujo; suite from 7 Spanish Favoured Songs, arr. by Falla; Dance spend Miller's Wifeand Miller's Dance, from Force to Sombrero de tres picos, arr. Falla.ARRS. BY OTHERS: La Vida breve: 2 Spanish Dances, pf. solo and pf. duet, arr. Samazeuilh; 1st Spanish Drip, vn., pf., arr. Kreisler; 2 Nation Dances, orch. Chapelier; 7 Spanish Favoured Songs, orch. by Halffter; Suite represent vn. and pf. arr. P. Kochanski; for vc. and pf., arr. Classification. Maréchal.