On the Street of the rector of Vves de Genoa, in Palm, the House with Stone Walls and the Mallorcan blinds, it was raised until 2016, where for two years Manuel de Fall discovered the removal of calm, which turned into a sound laboratory. Between 1933 and 1934, Fallus spent several seasons on the island and joined his cultural life from the hand of the musician and priest Mallorca Joan Maria Thomas, who gave Catalan and German classes. On Mallorca, the musician composed part of his work Atlantis And he took refuge in search of a favorable climate to the continuous health problems that he suffered.
Currently, nothing is left of this property. In 2016, after many years of complaints about the Association on the Excitement of Ancient Centers (Arca), one of the main conservation entities in the Balearian Islands, so that it was declared cultural interest (BIC) or in the cataloging of island interest, was reduced to dust under the blades of the excavator. Consell de Mallorca issued a report in which the suspension of demolition licenses received when the ward did not have enough values to keep it in a state. Today, the functional style building takes its place, erasing all the traces of the passage of the international Spanish composer.
“We are fighting until the last moment to maintain the house of faults,” he recalls, in the statements of Eldiorio.es, the press secretary of Arca, farm -zel. The essence was based on the landscape and environmental values of a small house, which had a special typology, with a double external staircase and volumes integrated into Genoa’s unique landscape “is easy to understand any with sensitivity.”
The organization also supported a brief description that the Manuel de Fall -de -granada fund, among other things, to avoid dispersing the fundamental archive for the musical culture mentioned against demolition, and this added requests previously formulated by the composer Joan Mall and the son of Falla’s failure, Manuel Orozko. The manager and family of Falla, Elena Garcia de Parredes de Fallus, said in her letter: Ballad on Mallorca On the topic of his admiring Chopin, who also lived on Mallorca. “The house that he considered unique not only his typology,” but also because the great creator lived in it. ”
“The patrimonial protection of these enclaves is fundamental, and we are obliged to protect them and conveniently indicate them, because there are many people who like to visit them on their trips,” continued a letter that emphasized how Carmen de la -Antekela, which failed to live in Granada, is a museum, while not a village, while not a village, while the village, while the village, while the village, while the village the village, while the village, while the village, while the village, while the village Witch Love And Three picos hat He lived the last four years of his life, also became a busy museum.
In Argentina and Granade, two houses where Manuel de Fallu lived are museums
From ARCA, they regretted that “an attempt to protect the uniqueness of the surroundings is again in advertising” and is attributed to the fact that the case of Genois’s house “is even more serious, because, in addition to the destruction of the landscape, this implies the loss of a historical house for several months of the most important Spanish composer, Manuel de Falla”.
Arrival at Mallorca
Upon arrival at Mallorca, the famous folklorist and Tom agreed to live on the street of the House of the VIVS rector, from which the owner of Anthony Mulet I Gomil (1887-1966) and who, in turn, rented him to the musician Gaditano. Famous as Mulet d’BAX, the house served as a quiet stay for the composer.
“I spent three times a week in the afternoon with him, helping him in his correspondence. It was a difficult task or a brief sending him to all satisfaction of the one who weighed the words as a harsh and conscientious administrator of ideas. Sometimes we stopped for a long time in writing a simple telegram for a friend. How to finish? Manuel de Fall on the islandField
In it, he recalls that “the complication was more for such letters that could succumb to false interpretations or deformations of their thinking, especially when they answered the editors or organizers of the concerts, to which he, as he said, had to clearly expose ideas, and still often understood things that were different from those who wanted to tell them.”
As historian Elena Torres Clemente notes, whose research career focuses on the Spanish music of the twentieth century and fundamentally on the figure and work of the phala, in which she is considered one of the main specialists at the international level, the composer switched to the island in order to promote the “Mediterraran scenes” of his new scenery supporting. The first malfunction in Mallorca extends from February 28, 1933 to June 26 or 27 of the same year and had a creation as the main compositional fruit Balade de MallAdaptation for a mixed choir to Capella Ballads in Fa Bolshoi OP. 38 Frederic Chopin.
According to historian Elena Torres Clemente, Fallus moved to the island to advance the Mediterranean scenes of her new picturesque oratory. He composed the creation of the Mallorca ballad, adaptation for the mixed choir to the Chapel de la Ballad in FA Major Op. 38 Frédéric Chopin
Health problems
The part, as Torres explains by Clement in his Biography of Manuel FalllaHe was released at Cartuja de Valldemosa (Mallorca), in the same enclave, which a century ago welcomed Chopin Lucy Dupine, known as George Sand on May 21, 1933, as part of the third edition of Chopin festival. As the historian recalls, on December 6, 1933, “concerned about the low indicator of her creative work,” Fallus began her second trip to the greatest of the Balearian islands, in which she remained until June 18, 1934. It was when she wrote failures in one of her letters, the “unreasonable season”, in which “crooked things” became a fundamental stand in a pulmon conclusion.
“Indeed, the anxiety that struck the failure during these years and the slowdown of their creative vein was also largely motivated by their health problems,” the researcher says. “In fact, this could not delay these disorders many years ago, even before arriving in Granada. In fact, just a few weeks before moving to the Andaluz city, in September 1920, the composer said Trend (due to English and musician English John Brande Trdn
Therefore, shortly before moving to Mallorca, Maria Del Carmen wrote Joan Maria Thomas to explain that her brother suffered the “nervous attack of the strongest”, so he was “subjected to a strict isolation regime that works exclusively on the termination of the Atlantis,” says the cards from cards analyzed in his book. On the island, he claims that his health “again began to protest” from the infection of the influenza and the rheumatic attack aggravated by the humidity of this area.
“Logically, these continuous diseases began to introduce signs into the habits of the musician, which Walter Starki remembered after his visit to Granada in 1935”: “I saw him the last time in 1935, a year before the Civil War. His subtle health made him lead the life of the prisoners and hardly left him more than to go to Mass in the old Shark Cabriola, ”the historian recalls. Despite the calmness of Mallorca, the suffering, which, however, were worsened over time, as can be seen from the petitions and her sister.
The military coup of 1936 and the murder of their friend Federico Garcia Lorca placed the reality of the war in the eye. “The only means that we have against him is not a counter -revolution of a conservative type that supports even the implemented, in order to be safe, but another deep and higher revolution, guided by the love that we owe to God for all things and neighbor as ourselves,” the composer wrote in a letter to Ramiro De Maest. Nevertheless, Falla and her sister did not go to Argentina until September 28, 1939. He will die in 1946, on the night of November 13 to 14, after he suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest during sleep.
Today, the presence of Manuel de Fall on Mallorca decreases to commemorative plates in Genoa and the short days of tribute. His stay, which could project the island as the musical space of the creation associated with his figure, was fragmented without a physical place to tell his history. The composer’s house was part of the island that offered shelter to those who wanted to create. “Mallorca for artists is one of the most beautiful landscapes of the Earth and one of the most ignored.” George Sand used these words once to designate Mallorca. The seal, which, almost two hundred years later, far from the current image of the island, beaten by speculation, massification, environmental degradation and stunning.