Manuel de Falla: Modernism in Spain, 1898-1936 (review)
2002; Music Library Association; Volume: 59; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/not.2002.0162
ISSN1534-150X
Autores Tópico(s)Basque language and culture studies
ResumoThe plangent lyricism of the slow movement of Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra is often interpreted as a lament for the horrific suffering of the Spanish Civil War, which ended in the same year as the concerto's composition. That it expressed instead the composer's grief over the death of his newborn baby does not diminish the meaningful conjunction of the two events, and no work better conveys the tragic loss that the Civil War and the victory of the forces of Franco represented for Spain and Spanish culture. Just how much of a loss this was becomes readily apparent in Carol Hess's brilliant analysis of modernist culture in Spain between the two seminal events in modern Spanish history: the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Spanish Civil War (1936- 39). Manuel de Falla, foremost among Spanish composers of the modern era, joined many of Spain's leading intellectuals and artists by leaving his homeland in a state of disillusionment; he remained in Argentina from 1939 until his death in 1946. Almost four decades of cultural florescence [End Page 342] came to an end as Franco put his country into a sort of "deep freeze," from which it emerged only in the 1970s.
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