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He received his first piano lessons from his mother and grandfather, but when he turned 9, he started to learn music with a teacher called Eloísa Galluzo.
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Manuel de Falla was born in Plaza de Mina nº 3, Cádiz, Spain.
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When he was young he loved literature and journalism (he even created his own magazine). He decided to dedicate his life to music when he assisted to a concert in Cádiz where they played many Grieg pieces which inspired him.
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In 1896 he moved to Madrid to improve his piano skills at the Royal Conservatory of the capital city.
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He won the 1st piano national award in 1899. After it, he tried to compose Zarzuelas, publishing “Los amores de Inés” in 1902.
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During these years he worked as a piano teacher in the capital city.
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Falla lived between 1907 and 1914 in Paris. He did it to change his point of view and to get inspiration to start to compose again. He got the impressionist influences of Debussy and Ravel.
During his last years in Paris and during his first years back in Madrid he started publishing all his famous pieces which were performed by many companies and orchestras in many countries (Spain, UK, France, Russia...) -
From 1914 to 1939 he lived between Granada and Madrid, composing and getting the influence of the “Generación del 27” specially from his friend Federico García Lorca.
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His masterpiece, "El amor brujo", was published in 1915 and it is his most famous play until today, represented in many places of the world.
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He moved to Argentina and he never came back to his fatherland.
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Falla didn´t feel comfortable in the violence of the II Spanish Republic, specially due to the burn of churches, so when how divided was Spain and the fact that the country was going to have a war, he moved to Argentina.
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Even though Franco asked him to come back as one of the greatest spanish musicians ever, he stayed in Argentina away from the sad and poor postwar Spain.
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November 14th 1946, Alta Gracia, Argentina due to a cardiac arrest.
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His rests were transported to Cádiz where they are nowadays, in the Cathedral.
