Manuel de falla el amor brujo
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Composed: 1915-1921
Length: c. 10 minutes
Orchestration: 2 flutes (2nd = piccolo), oboe (= English horn), 2 clarinets, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, bells, piano, and strings
First Los Angeles Philharmonic performance (complete score): February 13, 1930, with contralto Mina Hager, Artur Rodzinski conducting
Although Falla owed much to a formative sojourn in Paris, where he learned from colleagues such as Debussy, Ravel, and Dukas, his music remained firmly rooted in Spanish arts, both folk and classical. Moreover, the majority of his most important scores are music for the theater — zarzuelas, ballets, operas, incidental music. It was the two-act opera La vida breve that served as his introduction in Paris, and the sounds of his homeland were never long out of Falla’s creative imagination; the principal work of his Paris years was the Siete canciones populares españolas.
Falla left Paris at the beginning of World War I. His first work back in Madrid was El am • Composed: 1914-1915; 1916; 1921-1925 Although Falla owed much to a formative sojourn in Paris, where he learned from colleagues such as Debussy, Ravel, and Dukas, his music remained firmly rooted in Spanish arts, both folk and classical. Moreover, the majority of his most important scores are music for the theater — zarzuelas, ballets, operas, incidental music. It was the two-act opera La vida breve that served as his introduction in Paris, and the sounds of his homeland were never long out of Falla’s creative imagination; the principal work of his Paris years was the Siete canciones populares españolas. Falla left Paris at the beginning of World War inom. His first work back in • Ballet by Manuel de Falla For other uses, see El amor brujo (disambiguation). El amor brujo ([elaˈmoɾˈbɾu.xo], "Love, the sorcerer") is a ballet by Manuel de Falla to a libretto by María de la O Lejárraga García, although for years it was attributed to her husband Gregorio Martínez Sierra. It exists in three versions as well as a piano suite drawn from four of its movements. Andalusian in character, its music includes the celebrated Danza ritual del fuego (Ritual Fire Dance), the Canción del fuego fatuo (Song of the Will-o'-the-Wisp) and the Danza del terror. Its songs are in Andalusian Spanish. El amor brujo was commissioned in 1914 as a gitanería, or danced gypsy entertainment, dedicated to the flamenco dancer and cantaora Pastora Imperio. It was finished the next year but its premiere, on 15 April at the Teatro Lara in Madrid, proved unsuccessful. This version, in two
Length: c. 45 minutes
Orchestration: 2 flutes (2nd = piccolo), oboe (= English horn), 2 clarinets, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, bells, piano, and strings
First Los Angeles Philharmonic performance (complete score): February 13, 1930, with contralto Mina Hager, Artur Rodzinski conductingEl amor brujo
Versions and performance history
[edit]Gitanería (1915)
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