19 Facts About Rodolfo Halffter

Rodolfo Halffter Escriche was a Spanish composer, music critic, and professor with Mexican citizenship.

Rodolfo Halffter's music has been compared to Domenico Scarlatti's in its neoclassicism and to Falla's in its mild polytonality.

Rodolfo Halffter emigrated to Mexico in 1939 and taught there for more than three decades, enjoying increasing recognition.

Rodolfo Halffter returned to Spain beginning in the 1960s, where he taught, and received its in 1986.

Rodolfo Halffter wrote music in many genres and for many films.

Rodolfo Halffter was largely self-taught as a composer and influenced by Debussy and Schoenberg, having read the latter's Harmonielehre.

Rodolfo Halffter was advised by Manuel de Falla, whom he met through composer-critic Adolfo Salazar, and whose music then owed much to Igor Stravinsky's neoclassical style.

Rodolfo Halffter met artists like Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca at the, and he set the poems of Rafael Alberti to music in Marinero en tierra.

Rodolfo Halffter became counted among the composers of the 1930s, or Grupo de Madrid.

Rodolfo Halffter cofounded the Alianza de Intelectuales Antifascistas in 1936 and was Head of the Department of Music at the Undersecretary of Propaganda in the Second Spanish Republic.

Rodolfo Halffter was among many Spanish Republican exiles who did so, including Falla, Salazar, Rosa Garcia Ascot, Jesus Bal y Gay, and Maria Teresa Prieto.

Rodolfo Halffter arrived in Mexico in 1939, where he was welcomed by Carlos Chavez and Blas Galindo in Mexico City.

Rodolfo Halffter may have participated in the 1954 and 1957 in Caracas, perhaps placing him in the company of Roque Cordero and Rene Leibowitz.

Rodolfo Halffter taught in Granada and Santiago de Compostela and participated in music festivals.

Rodolfo Halffter published a catalogue of Chavez's music in 1971 for the composer's seventieth birthday and updated it after Chavez's death.

Rodolfo Halffter wrote the majority of his most important works while in the.

Rodolfo Halffter began to use twelve-tone technique, as the first composer to do so in Mexico, in Tres hojas de album.

Rodolfo Halffter maintained the melodic orientation of his prior style.

Rodolfo Halffter has been remembered as a composer working in the style established by Falla and as the first composer of twelve-tone music in Mexico.