He was a Spanish composer, exponent of the musical impressionism.

It received his first lessons from his mother, a piano player herself, and from his grandfather. At age nine, he continued his musical studies with Eloísa Galluzo. Since 1896, he began to travel to Madrid, where he attended the Real Conservatory of Music and Declamation. There he perfected in piano with José Tragó, a classmate of Isaac Albéniz.

In 1901, he met Felipe Pedrell, who would have a notable influence in his later career waking up in him the interest for the Flamenco and, specially, the canto jondo. The years of study in the Spanish Capital reached an end with the composition of the opera La Vida Breve, in collaboration with Carlos Fernández Shaw, which won the first price on a contest summoned by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.

In 1907 he settled down in Paris, for council of Joaquín Turina and Víctor Mirecki Larramat, and there he got in contact with Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Paul Dukas, Isaac Albéniz, Alexis Roland-Manuel, Florent Schmitt, Ricardo Viñes y Pablo Picasso.

When the War began in Spain, he spent five years in the capital and then move to Granada. Thanks to his friendship with Lorca, he founded a Company of shows and ballet.

Is in his work for guitar that the modern classical guitar is born, be already for the use of the tone as for having awarded certain “nobility” to the instrument.

At the beginning of 1922, he established definitely his residence in Carmen of Antequerela Alta, number 11. He took some trips to France, Belgium and Italy and in Madrid he met Ernesto Halffter.

In 1925, he accepted the charge as numerary academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Granada. On May 22, the premiere took place in Paris of the definitive version for the ballet El Amor Brujo in Trianon Lyrique. On December 29 took place the representation of El Retablo de Maese Pedro (Master Peter’s Puppet Show) in New York, with the Philarmonic Symphony Orchestra, Wanda Landowska and Willem Mengelberg as the director. He was nominated as a member of the Hispanic Society of America.

On September 28, 1939, after the Spanish Civil War and once the Second World War was already begun, Manuel de Falla went into exile in Argentina. He died on November 14^th, 1946 after he suffered a cardiac arrest just two days after saying goodbye to one of his favorite collaborators and big friend, singer Conxita BAdía, who was turning back from the exile.