{"id":9468,"date":"2018-12-03T11:57:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/?post_type=lugar&p=9468"},"modified":"2021-11-19T10:01:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T10:01:45","slug":"antequeruela-home","status":"publish","type":"lugar","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/lugar\/antequeruela-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Manuel de Falla\u00b4s House in Antequeruela street"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manuel de Falla\u00b4s House in Antequeruela street (Carmen de la Antequeruela), in the grounds of the Alhambra, the modest house chosen by Manuel de Falla<\/a> to live in Granada after several attempts that failed to find a stable apartment, became one of the secret<\/em> centers of European cultural life in the 1920s and 30s and the place of attraction for the group of lively young people from Granada linked to El Rinconcillo<\/a> and later the Athenaeum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The adaptation of the house as a museum tried to preserve the atmosphere in which the musician lived with an unprecedented meticulousness, respecting even the humidity and the disorder of the drawers: it had to give the visitor the impression that the master had left and would return in a while.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The composer resided almost permanently in it between 1922 and 1939. In 1962, it was converted into House-Museum<\/a> following descriptions and drawings made by Hermenegildo Lanz<\/a> shortly after the musician’s departure to Argentina. Lanz made the drawings in the hope that when Falla returned from Buenos Aires (he died in 1946) he would recover the domestic tranquility of his house as he had left it.<\/p>\n

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Falla in the Manuel de Falla\u00b4s House in Antequeruela street. Photo: Manuel de Falla Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The adaptation of the house as a museum tried to maintain the atmosphere in which the musician lived with an unprecedented meticulousness, respecting even the humidities and the rosettes on the walls or the disorder of the drawers where Falla accumulated his medicines. Falla’s biographer, Manuel Orozco, faithful to this peculiar hyperrealism, said that the house should give the visitor the impression that the maestro had gone out and would be back in a while.<\/p>\n

In the Manuel de Falla\u00b4s House in Antequeruela street pieces were composed such as Master Peter\u2019s Puppet Show<\/em>(1922), Psyche<\/em> (1925), the tributes to Arb\u00f3s and Dukas (1933 and 1935) or the Concerto for harpsichord<\/em> (1925), of a boldness that so many years later still surprises spectators. And of course Atlantida<\/em>, that long unfinished attempt that occupied the last decades of the composer’s life in Spain and Argentina.<\/p>\n

Since Falla and his sister Mar\u00eda del Carmen<\/a> moved from Calle Real de la Alhambra to Antequeruela, in 1922, the house was a preferred meeting place with Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca, his brother Francisco<\/a> and some selected members of the El Rinconcillo gathering, where the maestro once went.<\/p>\n

Lorca was one of the regular visitors. He played his piano on numerous occasions and there he devised the puppet show with Falla on Three Kings Day 1923 at the Lorca family home at Acera del Casino, 31<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There, the 1923 Flamenco Song Contest was also devised and Lorca, by Falla’s hand, got to know the “primitive Andalusian singing” that inspired the Poem of the Deep Song<\/em><\/a>, written in 1921 in parallel to the organization of the contest, but which was not published until 1931. On February 12, 1922 Lorca read for the first time his lecture on The Deep Song. A primitive Andalusian song <\/em>at the Centro Art\u00edstico<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Falla at the Manuel de Falla\u00b4s House in Antequeruela street.\u00a0Photo: Manuel de Falla Archive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Falla’s appearance in Granada around 1920 aroused a general enthusiasm in cultural circles and a very particular one in Federico who, aware of the presence of the maestro in the Calle Real in the Alhambra, went in the company of \u00c1ngel Barrios<\/a> and told him: “We want to be your friends”. The visits were already continuous.<\/p>\n

Isabel Garc\u00eda Lorca<\/a> recalls that the first time Federico spoke to them about Falla was at the house in Acera del Darro<\/a>. “He told us that they were still in Granada a little lost and alone. So we went there, [to Falla’s first house in Granada] my mother, Concha<\/a>, Federico and me. The house was sad and gloomy, but its inhabitants seemed to us quite the opposite, they looked happy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5541,"template":"","inters_del_lugar":[119],"ruta":[64],"class_list":["post-9468","lugar","type-lugar","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","inters_del_lugar-indispensable","ruta-route-of-granada"],"trid":"182","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lugar\/9468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lugar"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lugar"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"inters_del_lugar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inters_del_lugar?post=9468"},{"taxonomy":"ruta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ruta?post=9468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}