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Falla, Manuel de (1876–1946)Spanish composer. The folk music (flamenco) of southern Spain is a major part of his compositions. His opera La vida breve/Brief Life (1905; first performed 1913) was followed by the ballets El amor brujo/Love the Magician (first performed 1915) and El sombrero de tres picos/The Three-Cornered Hat (1919), and his most ambitious concert work, Noches en los jardines de España/Nights in the Gardens of Spain (1916). He also wrote songs and pieces for piano and guitar.
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is a ballet composed by Manuel de Falla, commissioned in its development by Sergei Diaghilev and performed in its completed form in 1919. Noches en los Jardines de España) is a piece of music by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla (1876-1946). Critically acclaimed for her polished technique in performing Mozart, Beethoven, Schuman and Rachmaninov, de Larrocha was also unrivaled in her interpretation of Spanish composers such as Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados and Isaac Albeniz. |
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