Manuel de Falla - Noches en los Jardines de España (1916) [de Larrocha]

Manuel de Falla y Matheu (23 November 1876 – 14 November 1946) was a Spanish composer. Along with Isaac Albéniz and Enrique Granados, he was one of Spain’s most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century. His image was on Spain’s 1970 100-pesetas banknote. Noches en los Jardines de España Dedication: Ricardo Viñes I. En el Generalife II. Danza Lejana III. En los Jardines de la Sierra de Córdoba Alicia de Larrocha piano and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Description by James Reel [-] For Falla to gain the freedom of harmonic thinking to become the twentieth century’s best-known and most effective author of Spanish music, he paradoxically had to leave Spain and study in Paris, principally with Paul Dukas. By absorbing the free harmonic approach and rich orchestral effects of the likes of Debussy and Ravel, Falla found the vocabulary he need for his own expressions of his native