Manuel de Falla: His Life and Works

From: Musical Opinion | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

MANUEL DE FALLA: His Life and Works

Edited by Gonzalo ero and Jorge de Persia

Omnibus Pr ISBN W711949094 19.gg

This exceptional volume consists of more than 300 pages devoted to one of the moSt important composers of the 20th-Century and certainly one of Spain's most compelling cultural figures. He was bom in Cadiz on 23 November 1876 and died on 16 September 1925 in Argentina, where he had exiled himself during the Spanish Civil War. His body was retumed to and buried in Cadiz. While in Paris from 1907 to 1914 he became friendly with Debussy and Ravel and five years later composed The ...

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