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Born: 23 November 1876, Cádiz,
Spain
Died: 14 November 1946, Alta Gracia, Argentina
de Falla, Manuel
The first of Spain's national composers.
He wanted to be a writer, yet studied music in depth. During a visit to
Paris,
he became friends with the impressionist
Debussy
and Ravel,
and when he returned to Spain,
with the start of World War I, he wrote the Suite
for Piano and Orchestra "Nights in the
Gardens of Spain" ("Noches
en los jardines de España"), integrating Spanish
folk music into spectacular symphonic music. De Falla became a well known
composer, and the ballets he wrote, like "The
Three-Cornered Hat" ("El
sombrero de tres picos") and the early "Love
the Magician" ("El
Amor Brujo"), made him famous in Europe
and around the world. The
interesting combination of modern music and sentimental elements of Spanish
music was his trademark.
In 1939, after the Civil War in
Spain, he moved to Argentina
and died there in 1946.
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