Canon
Where to start with Falla
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
StageEl amor brujo — Ballet
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ChamberConcerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, and Cello, G.71
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OrchestralNoches en los jardines de España, for piano and orchestra, G.49
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Vocal3 Mélodies, for soprano and piano, G.37
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Keyboard3 Obras desconocidas, G.14, G.21, G.62
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StageEl sombrero de tres picos — Ballet
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StageLa vida breve — Opera
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Keyboard4 Spanish Pieces, G.37
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Vocal7 Popular Spanish Songs, G.40 — Song cycle
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KeyboardAllegro de concierto, G.29
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KeyboardCanción, G.14
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OrchestralDanza Espanola, for orchestra
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KeyboardEl Sombrero de tres picos Suite for piano
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OrchestralEl Sombrero de tres picos Suite no. 1, G.58
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OrchestralEl Sombrero de tres picos Suite no. 2, G.59
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Falla's catalogueMost Popular
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Nights in the Gardens of Spain
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The Three-Cornered Hat (ballet suite)
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El amor brujo (ballet — Ritual Fire Dance)
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Fantasia Baetica (piano)
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Siete canciones populares españolas
Most Acclaimed
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El amor brujo
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Harpsichord Concertosparse neoclassical — his most surprising work
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El retablo de Maese Pedropuppet opera — Don Quixote puppet show with harpsichord
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Fantasia Baetica
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La vida breve (opera)
Most Weird
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Harpsichord Concerto1926 — bare, neoclassical, flute + oboe + clarinet + violin + cello + harpsichord; nothing like his earlier lush works
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El retablo de Maese Pedroa puppet show within a puppet show — Don Quixote watches puppets reenact a story he then attacks with his sword
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Atlàntidahis last work — massive cantata about Atlantis; unfinished; his student Halffter completed it
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Psyché (voice and chamber ensemble)tiny intimate piece — completely different from anything else he wrote
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Homenaje (guitar)homage to Debussy — written for inclusion in a Tombeau de Debussy collection
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 33
- Stage
- ● El amor brujo — Ballet
- El sombrero de tres picos — Ballet
- La vida breve — Opera
- El corregidor y la molinera — Ballet
- El retablo de maese Pedro — Opera
- Chamber
- Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, and Cello, G.71
- Homenaje pour 'Le tombeau de Claude Debussy,' for guitar, G.56
- Orchestral
- Noches en los jardines de España, for piano and orchestra, G.49
- Danza Espanola, for orchestra
- El Sombrero de tres picos Suite no. 1, G.58
- El Sombrero de tres picos Suite no. 2, G.59
- Homenajes
- Vocal
- 3 Mélodies, for soprano and piano, G.37
- 7 Popular Spanish Songs, G.40 — Song cycle
- El pan de ronda, G.47 — Song
- I Hate You Then I Love You — Song
- Oracion de las madres, G.42 — Song
- Preludios, G.16 — Song
- Psyché, for mezzo-soprano, flute, harp, and string trio, G. 67
- Rima: Dios mio, que solos se quedan los muertos!, G.20 — Song
- Rima: Olas gigantes, G. 19 — Song
- Tus ojillos negros, G.28 — Song
- Keyboard
- 3 Obras desconocidas, G.14, G.21, G.62
- 4 Spanish Pieces, G.37
- Allegro de concierto, G.29
- Canción, G.14
- El Sombrero de tres picos Suite for piano
- Fantasía baetica, G.55
- Mazurka in C minor, G.11
- Nocturno, G.3
- Pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas, G.83
- Serenata, G.22
- Vals capricho, G.15