Manuel de Falla
Serenata andaluza
Manuel de Falla’s “Serenata andaluza” was composed around 1900 and already displays the young composer’s distinctive style: melodies inspired by Spanish folklore and rousing Andalusian rhythms mix with impressionistic timbres. The charming work is of medium difficulty and thus also manageable for advanced amateurs – a wonderful introduction to Manuel de Falla’s musical world. This new edition – the only one on the market which offers a carefully reviewed musical text – impresses with its optimal, easy-to-read notation, and thus finally provides the perfect foundation for the study of this enchanting serenade.
About the Composer
Manuel de Falla
Spain’s most important composer of the twentieth century; he absorbed prevailing trends from the Parisian avant-garde and combined them with nationalist Spanish ideas.
| 1876 | Born in Cádiz on November 23, the son of a businessman. |
| 1896–99 | Piano studies at the conservatory in Madrid; from 1902–1904, private lessons with Spanish nationalist Felipe Pedrell. |
| 1906–08 | “4 Piezas españolas” for piano. |
| 1906 | With his opera “La vida breve,” Falla wins a competition to promote Spanish nationalist operas. |
| 1907 | Relocation to Paris, acquaintance with Dukas, Debussy, Ravel, Albéniz. He is introduced to the circle of the “Apaches,” to which Ravel, among others, belongs. |
| 1909 | Songs “Tres melodías” after Théophile Gautier. |
| 1909–15 | “Noches en los jardines de España” (“Nights in the Garden of Spain”) for piano and orchestra, including Andalusian folklore elements. |
| 1913 | Premiere in Nice of “La vida breve.” |
| 1914 | Return to Madrid upon the outbreak of the world war. “Las Siete cancíones populares españolas” after texts of old Spanish songs. |
| 1915 | Premiere of the ballet “El amor brujo.” |
| 1919 | Breakthrough with the premiere in London of the ballet “El sombrero de tres picos” (“The Three-Cornered Hat”). |
| 1920 | “Homenaje: pièce de guitare écrite pour ‘Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy’” (“Homage: Guitar Piece Written for ‘Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy’”). He moves to Granada; there he explores flamenco and popular puppet theater with Federico García Lorca. |
| 1923 | Premiere in Paris of the puppet opera “El retablo de maese Pedro” (“Master Pedro’s Puppet Show”) after an episode in Don Quixote. |
| 1923–26 | Concerto for harpsichord and five instruments. |
| 1927–46 | Composition of the scenic cantata “Atlántida”: a monumental work completed by his student Ernesto Halffter and premiered posthumously in Barcelona in 1961 (in concert version) and in Milan in 1962. |
| 1939 | Relocation to Argentina. |
| 1946 | Death in Alta Gracia (Argentina) on November 14. |
About the Authors
Norbert Müllemann (Editor)
Dr. Norbert Müllemann, born in 1976 in Cologne, studied musicology, German philology and philosophy at the University of Cologne whilst at the same time studying the piano at the Music Conservatory in Cologne.
In 2004 he began working at Henle Publishers as an intern. In 2005 he became a junior editor, whilst at the same time starting his doctorate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. He completed it in 2008 with a thesis entitled “Handschriften Frédéric Chopins bis 1830. Studien zur Authentizität, Datierung und Werkgenese”. Since 2008 Müllemann has been an editor at the publishing house, becoming editor-in-chief in 2017 and Head of Publishing in 2024. He has edited numerous Urtext editions for the publisher with a particular focus on the works of Frédéric Chopin.
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