List of compositions by Manuel de Falla
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This is a list of the works of the Spanish
composer Manuel de Falla
(1876–1946).
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composer Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish Andalusian composer of classical music. With Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados and Joaquín Turina he is one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century....
(1876–1946).
Orchestral works
- Noches en los jardines de EspañaNights in the Gardens of SpainNights in the Gardens of Spain is a piece of music by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla...
("Nights in the Gardens of Spain") – piano and orchestra (c. 1909–1916) - Homenajes ("Homages") – orchestra (1938–1939)
- Sections: I. "Fanfare sobre el nombre de E. F. Arbós" – II. "À Claude Debussy (Elegía de la guitarra)" – Rappel de la Fanfare – III. "À Paul Dukas (Spes Vitae)" – IV. "Pedrelliana".
Works for chamber ensembles and solo instruments
- Melodía para violonchelo y piano – for piano and cello (1897)
- Pieza en Do mayor and Romanza – for cello and piano (1898)
- Fanfare pour une fête ("Fanfare for a feast") – for two trumpets, timpani and side-drum (1921)
- Concerto for harpsichord, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin and celloHarpsichord Concerto (De Falla)Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin and Cello is a concerto written for harpsichord and chamber ensemble by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla in 1926.The work is in three movements:* I: Allegro* II: Lento...
– dedicated to Wanda LandowskaWanda LandowskaWanda Landowska was a Polish harpsichordist whose performances, teaching, recordings and writings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century...
(c. 1923–1926) - Fanfare sobre el nombre de Arbós ("Fanfare on the name of ArbósEnrique Fernandez ArbosEnrique Fernández Arbós was a Spanish violinist, composer and conductor who divided much of his career between Madrid and London. He originally made his name as a virtuoso violinist and later as one of Spain’s greatest conductors.Fernández Arbós was born in Madrid...
") – for trumpets, horns and drums (1934); orchestrated as a section of Homenajes.
Vocal works
- Preludios ("Preludes") – voice and piano, text ("Madre todas las noches") by Antonio de Trueba (c. 1900)
- Rima ("Rime") – voice and piano, text ("Olas gigantes") by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (c. 1900)
- Dios mío, qué solos se quedan los muertos – voice and piano, text by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (c. 1900)
- Tus ojillos negros ("Your small black eyes") – voice and piano, text by Cristóbal de Castro (1902–1903)
- Cantares de Nochebuena "Songs of Christmas Eve" – nine popular songs for voice, guitar and (at least in the case of the first two songs) zambomba and rebec or chicharra (1903–1904)
- Trois mélodies – voice and piano, words by Théophile Gautier (1909–1910)
- Siete canciones populares españolas ("Seven Spanish Folksongs") – for voice and piano, dedicated to Madame Ida Godebska (1914)
- Oración de las madres que tienen sus hijos en sus brazos ("Prayer of the mothers embracing their children" – voice and piano, words by Gregorio Martínez Sierra (1914)
- El pan de Ronda que sabe a verdad ("The bread of Ronda has a taste of truth") – voice and piano, by G. Martínez Sierra (1915)
- Psyché – for mezzo-soprano, flute, harp, violin and cello (1924)
- Soneto a Córdoba ("Sonnet to Cordoba") – for soprano voice and harp (or piano), text by Luis de GóngoraLuis de GóngoraLuis de Góngora y Argote was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered to be the most prominent Spanish poets of their age. His style is characterized by what was called culteranismo, also known as Gongorism...
(1927)
Piano
- Nocturne (1896)
- Mazurka in C minor (1899)
- Serenata andaluza ("Andalusian Serenade") (1900)
- Canción ("Song") (1900)
- Vals capricho (1900)
- Cortejo de gnomos ("Procession of Gnomes") (1901)
- Allegro de concierto (1903–1904)
- Cuatro piezas españolas, Pièces espagnoles ("Four Spanish Pieces") – for piano, dedicated to Isaac AlbénizIsaac AlbénizIsaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms .-Life:Born in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz and his wife Dolors Pascual, Albéniz...
(c. 1906–1909) - Fantasía béticaFantasía BéticaFantasía Bética is a composition for piano by Manuel de Falla. it was composed in 1919, and marked the transition from Falla's impressionistic style for the piano into a more modern, virtuosic period of his piano music...
– for piano, dedicated to Arthur RubinsteinArthur RubinsteinArthur Rubinstein KBE was a Polish-American pianist. He received international acclaim for his performances of the music of a variety of composers...
(1919) - Canto de los remeros del Volga (del cancionero musical ruso) ("Song of the Volga boatmen") (1922)
- Pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas (1935) – piano (1935); orchestrated as the third part of Homenajes
Guitar
- Pour le tombeau de Claude DebussyClaude DebussyClaude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
– for guitar; arranged for piano (1920); orchestrated as the second section of Homenajes
Versions and arrangements of other authors' works
- Cançó de nadal (1922)
- Claude DebussyClaude DebussyClaude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
– Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faunePrélude à l'après-midi d'un faunePrélude à l'après-midi d'un faune , commonly known by its English title Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, is a symphonic poem for orchestra by Claude Debussy, approximately 10 minutes in duration...
(1924) - Preludio (1924)
- Gioachino Rossini – Overture to The Barber of SevilleThe Barber of SevilleThe Barber of Seville, or The Futile Precaution is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's comedy Le Barbier de Séville , which was originally an opéra comique, or a mixture of spoken play with music...
(1924–1925) - Ave María (1932)
- L´amfiparnaso (Palma de Mallorca, 1934)
- Invocatio ad individuam trinitatem (Granada, 1935)
- Himno marcial (Granada, 1937)
- Emendemus in melius (Granada, 1939)
- Madrigal: prado verde y florido (Granada, 1939)
- Romance de Granada: qué es de ti, desconsolado (Granada, 1939)
- Tan buen ganadico (Granada, 1939)
- ¡Ora, sus! (Granada, 1939)
- O magnum mysterium (in circuncisione Domini) (Villa del Lago, 1940–1942)
- Tenebrae factae sunt (responsorium) (Villa del Lago, 1940–1942)
- Miserere mei Deus (salmo 50) (Villa del Lago, 1940–1942)
- In festo Sancti Jacobi (o Lux et decus Hispaniae) (Villa del Lago, 1940–1942)
- Benedictus (de la misa "Vidi speciosam") (Villa del Lago, 1940–1942)
- Gloria (de la misa "Vidi speciosam") (Villa del Lago, 1940–1942)
- Cançó de l´estrella (Villa del Lago, 1941–1942)
- Romance de Don Joan y Don Ramón (Villa del Lago, 1941–1942)