Manuel de Falla House Museum
Composer's preserved carmen home with garden, piano, and manuscripts overlooking the Alhambra hillside.
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This guide to the Manuel de Falla House Museum in Granada follows the composer at his desk in the walled carmen he shared with his sister below the Alhambra, adapting a chapter of Don Quixote into a puppet opera, El Retablo de Maese Pedro, commissioned years earlier by a wealthy patron. It traces how he found the craftsman he needed through a Granada cafe circle that also included a young Federico Garcia Lorca, and a puppet show staged one January evening that changed his mind. The desk where he worked still sits inside, and the walled garden still looks down over the same rooftops.
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