The piano piece Canción, composed in 1900 by Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), is not to be confused with the song of the same name, also written by Manuel de Falla, the sixth song in the suite Siete Canciones popolares Españolas.
 
We're happy that you have arrived here for what has previously been a free sheet music download. Canción by Manuel de Falla, Morgen! by Richard Strauss, and Schluss by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel have been our most popular publications, with downloads by over 1,000 site visitors. Unfortunately, due to ever-increasing software, hardware and site-hosting costs we are no longer able to offer all our piano publications for free download. In order to improve our service and to widen our audience, you can now buy all the following pieces (including our three most popular pieces, listed above) in one, printed album, Songs without Words, Book 1, from Amazon at https://amzn.eu/d/cr9QtEQ
 
Agustín Barrios (Mangoré): Prelude in C minor
‡ Amy Beach: A Mirage 
[Advanced version in Db maj & Intermediate version in C maj]
Manuel de Falla: Canción
‡ Louise Farrenc: Mélodie
Gabriel Fauré: Fantaisie (à la Satie)
Zdoněk Fibich: Poème
‡ Chiquinha Gonzaga: Valsa
Edvard Grieg: Siri Dale-visen
‡ Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Schluss (Conclusion)
‡ Hélène de Montgeroult: Étude No. 26
‡ Dora Pejačević: Song without words
Gabriel Pierné: Variation on Romance sans Paroles
Roger Quilter: Take, O take those lips away 
[Arrangement in Db maj & Easier version in C maj]
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vocalise
Robert Schumann: Chopin
Richard Strauss: Morgen!
 
‡ Women composers
 
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Canción should inspire any intermediate pianist to learn the flowing left-hand arpeggios and two-part right-hand (in order to define the tune and give it its appropriate prominence). Canción means 'Song' in Spanish, so let the tune sing! De Falla's tempo marking Andante mesto means slow (walking speed) and sad.
 
Brazilian pianist Cristina Ortiz plays Goyescas and de Falla (1975):
https://youtu.be/mg7kfWJA1N4. You may purchase and download Cristina Ortiz's recording of just this track (one of Tres Obras Desconocidas) here.
 
Animated score on YouTube (2m 19s): www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAjG4WS9Vq4
Canción is also available arranged for Flute (or Clarinet in B flat / Alto Sax in E flat) & Piano, published by Fullscore Publishing here. All transposed instrumental parts are included in a free, single, downloadable pdf file.
 
Biography:
Manuel de Falla, (born 1876 in Cádiz, Spain, died 1946 in Argentina) was, along with Albéniz, Tárrega and Granados, one of Spain's most important musicians of the early 20th century. In his music he achieved a fusion of poetry, asceticism and ardour that represents the spirit of Spain at its purest.
 
De Falla studied piano in Madrid and in 1907 moved to Paris, where he met Claude Debussy, Paul Dukas, and Maurice Ravel (whose orchestration influenced his own) and published his first piano pieces and songs. In 1914 he returned to Madrid, where he wrote the music for a ballet, El amor brujo (Love, the Magician; Madrid, 1915). De Falla followed this with El corregidor y la molinera (Madrid, 1917), which Diaghilev persuaded him to rescore for a ballet by Léonide Massine called El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat; London, 1919). Noches en los jardines de España (Nights in the Gardens of Spain; Madrid, 1916), a suite of three impressions for piano and orchestra, evoked the Andalusian atmosphere through erotic and suggestive orchestration.
 
He retired to Granada in 1922 but wrote little after 1926, living first in Mallorca and, from 1939, in Argentina.
 
Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Manuel-de-Falla