List of compositions by Manuel de Falla

Manuel de Falla

This is a list of the works of the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla (1876–1946).

Stage works

This is a complete list of Manuel de Falla's stage works.

Title	Genre	Sub­divisions	Libretto	Composition	Première date	Place, theatre
El conde de Villamediana			composer	1887, but lost
La Juana y la Petra (La casa de tócame Roque)	zarzuela	1 act	J. Santero, after Ramon de la Cruz	1900, but lost	unperformed
Limosna de amor	zarzuela	1 act	José Jackson Veyán	1901–1902	unperformed
Los amores de la Inés	zarzuela	1 act	Emilio Dugi (Mannel Osorio y Bertrand)		12 April 1902	Madrid, Teatro Cómico
El cornetín de órdenes (composed with Amadeo Vives)	zarzuela	3 acts		c. 1903, but lost
La cruz de Malta (composed with Amadeo Vives)	zarzuela			c. 1903, but lost
Prisionero de guerra (composed with Amadeo Vives)	zarzuela			c. 1903–1904
La vida breve	lyric drama	2 acts	Carlos Fernández Shaw	1904–1905	1 April 1913	Nice, Municipal Casino
El amor brujo	1. gitaneria / 2. symphonic work / 3. ballet pantomímico		Gregorio Martínez Sierra	1914–1925	1. 15 April 1915, 2. 28 March 1916	Madrid, Teatro Lara
The Three-Cornered Hat	ballet	1 act	Gregorio Martínez Sierra, after Pedro Antonio de Alarcón's El sombrero de tres picos		22 July 1919	London, Alhambra Theatre
Fuego fatuo	opera	3 acts	after themes by Frédéric Chopin, libretto by M. Martínez Sierra	1918–1919, but unfinished	unperformed
El retablo de maese Pedro	puppet opera	1 act	composer, after Cervantes	1919–1923	25 June 1923	Paris, Palace of the Princess of Polignac
El gran teatro del mundo	incidental music		composed for a performance of Calderón de la Barca's play of the same name	1927	27 June 1927	Granada, Plaza de los Aljibes de la Alhambra
Atlántida (revised and completed by Ernesto Halffter)	cantata escénica (for soloist, chorus and orchestra)	prologue and three parts	composer, after Jacint Verdaguer	1927–1946	24 November 1961 (concert version) 18 June 1962 (stage version)	Barcelona, Gran Teatre del Liceu Milan, Teatro alla Scala

Orchestral works

• Noches en los jardines de España ("Nights in the Gardens of Spain") – piano and orchestra (c. 1909–1916)
• Homenajes ("Homages") – orchestra (1938–1939)

  Sections: I. "Fanfare sobre el nombre de E. F. Arbós" – II. "À Claude Debussy (Elegía de la guitarra)" – Rappel de la Fanfare – III. "À Paul Dukas (Spes Vitae)" – IV. "Pedrelliana"

Choral works

• Balada de Mallorca ("Ballad of Majorca") – for choir (1933)

Works for chamber ensembles and solo instruments

• Melodía para violonchelo y piano – for piano and cello (1897)
• Pieza en Do mayor and Romanza – for cello and piano (1898)
• Fanfare pour une fête ("Fanfare for a feast") – for two trumpets, timpani and side-drum (1921)
• Concerto for harpsichord, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin and cello – dedicated to Wanda Landowska (c. 1923–1926)
• Fanfare sobre el nombre de Arbós ("Fanfare on the name of Arbós") – for trumpets, horns and drums (1934); orchestrated as a section of Homenajes.

Vocal works

• Preludios ("Preludes") – voice and piano, text ("Madre todas las noches") by Antonio de Trueba (c. 1900)
• Rima ("Rime") – voice and piano, text ("Olas gigantes") by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (c. 1900)
• Dios mío, qué solos se quedan los muertos – voice and piano, text by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (c. 1900)
• Tus ojillos negros ("Your small black eyes") – voice and piano, text by Cristóbal de Castro (1902–1903)
• Cantares de Nochebuena "Songs of Christmas Eve" – nine popular songs for voice, guitar and (at least in the case of the first two songs) zambomba and rebec or chicharra (1903–1904)
• Trois mélodies – voice and piano, words by Théophile Gautier (1909–1910)
• Siete canciones populares españolas ("Seven Spanish Folksongs") – for voice and piano, dedicated to Madame Ida Godebska (1914)
• Oración de las madres que tienen sus hijos en sus brazos ("Prayer of the mothers embracing their children" – voice and piano, words by Gregorio Martínez Sierra (1914)
• El pan de Ronda que sabe a verdad ("The bread of Ronda has a taste of truth") – voice and piano, by G. Martínez Sierra (1915)
• Psyché – for mezzo-soprano, flute, harp, violin, viola and cello (1924)
• Soneto a Córdoba ("Sonnet to Cordoba") – for soprano voice and harp (or piano), text by Luis de Góngora (1927)

Instrumental works

Piano

• Nocturne (1896)
• Mazurka in C minor (1899)
• Serenata andaluza ("Andalusian Serenade") (1900)
• Canción ("Song") (1900)
• Vals capricho (1900)
• Cortejo de gnomos ("Procession of Gnomes") (1901)
• Allegro de concierto (1903–1904)
• Cuatro piezas españolas, Pièces espagnoles ("Four Spanish Pieces") – for piano, dedicated to Isaac Albéniz (c. 1906–1909)
• Fantasía Bética – for piano, dedicated to Arthur Rubinstein (1919)
• Canto de los remeros del Volga (del cancionero musical ruso) ("Song of the Volga boatmen") (1922)
• Pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas (1935) – piano (1935); orchestrated as the third part of Homenajes

Guitar

• Pour le tombeau de Claude Debussy – for guitar; arranged for piano (1920); orchestrated as the second section of Homenajes

Versions and arrangements of other authors' works

• Cançó de nadal (1922)
• Claude Debussy – Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1924)
• Preludio (1924)
• Gioachino Rossini – Overture to The Barber of Seville (1924–1925)
• Ave María (1932)
• L´amfiparnaso (Palma de Mallorca, 1934)
• Invocatio ad individuam trinitatem (Granada, 1935)
• Himno marcial (Granada, 1937)
• Emendemus in melius (Granada, 1939)
• Madrigal: prado verde y florido (Granada, 1939)
• Romance de Granada: qué es de ti, desconsolado (Granada, 1939)
• Tan buen ganadico (Granada, 1939)
• ¡Ora, sus! (Granada, 1939)
• O magnum mysterium (in circuncisione Domini) (Villa del Lago, 1940–1942)
• Tenebrae factae sunt (responsorium) (Villa del Lago, 1940–1942)
• Miserere mei Deus (salmo 50) (Villa del Lago, 1940–1942)
• In festo Sancti Jacobi (o Lux et decus Hispaniae) (Villa del Lago, 1940–1942)
• Benedictus (de la misa "Vidi speciosam") (Villa del Lago, 1940–1942)
• Gloria (de la misa "Vidi speciosam") (Villa del Lago, 1940–1942)
• Cançó de l´estrella (Villa del Lago, 1941–1942)
• Romance de Don Joan y Don Ramón (Villa del Lago, 1941–1942)

References

• Crichton, Ronald (1992), "Falla, Manuel de" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7