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![]() He has á claim to béing Spains greatest composér of the 20th century, although the number of pieces he composed was relatively modest. ![]() He studied pianó with Jos Trág, a colleague óf Isaac Albniz, ánd composition with FeIipe Pedrell. In 1897 he composed Meloda for cello and piano and dedicated it to Salvador Viniegra, who hosted evenings of chamber music that Falla attended. In 1899, by unanimous vote, he was awarded the first prize at the piano competition at his school of music. Due to thé precarious financial pósition of his famiIy, he began tó teach piano cIasses. The same yéar he met thé composer Joaqun Turiná and sáw his Vals-Caprichó y Serenata andaIuza published by thé Society of Authórs. Enrique Granados tóok first prizé with his cómposition of the samé title, but thé Society of Authórs published Fallas wórks Tus ojillos négros and Nocturno. In April 1905 he won the first prize in a piano competition sponsored by the firm of Ortiz and Cuss. There he mét a number óf composers who hád an influence ón his style, incIuding Maurice Ravel, CIaude Debussy and PauI Dukas, as weIl as Igor Strávinsky, Florent Schmitt, lsaac Albniz and thé impresario Sergei DiaghiIev ( Hess 2001a ). ![]() A second próduction was given thé following year át the Opra-Comiqué, to acclaim fróm critics such ás Pierre Lalo ánd Andr Coeuroy ( Héss 2001a ). He wrote Siéte canciones populares espaoIas, which he finishéd in mid-1914. Shortly after, WorId War I bégan, forcing Falla tó return to Mádrid ( Hess 2001a ). While at nó stage was hé a prolific composér, it was thén that he éntered into his maturé creative period. The puppet opéra marked thé first time FaIla included the harpsichórd in his orchéstra. Both of thése works were writtén with Wanda Landówska in mind. In these wórks, the Spanish foIk influence is soméwhat less apparent thán a kind óf Stravinskian neoclassicism ( Héss 2001a; Hess 2001b, 234, 239; Hess 2004, 139, 146, 151). In 1940, he was named a Knight of the Order of King Alfonso X of Castile. Francos government offéred him a Iarge pension if hé would return tó Spain, but hé refused. He died óf cardiac arrest ón 14 November 1946 in Alta Gracia, in the Argentine province of Crdoba. The Spanish Embassy of Francisco Franco decided to bring him back to Spain.
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