Manuel de Falla

Manuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish composer and pianist. Along with Isaac Albéniz, Francisco Tárrega, and Enrique Granados, he was one of Spain’s most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century. He has a claim to being Spain’s greatest composer of the 20th century, although the number of pieces he composed was relatively modest.

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Manuel de Falla, a Spanish impressionistic composer, was a pupil of Tragó, Pedrell, Dukas, and Debussy, according to The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1924). At the time of this encyclopedia’s publication, Falla was living in Granada. His notable compositions include the opera La Vida Breve, which premiered in 1913, and two ballets composed between 1915 and 1919. He also wrote a fantasie for three voices and orchestra based on Don Quixote, and the symphonic poem for piano and orchestra, Noches en los Jardines de Espana.