Who wrote the music for the ballet 'The Three-Cornered Hat'?
The Three-Cornered Hat The Three-Cornered Hat El sombrero de tres picos ("The Three-Cornered Hat" or "Le tricorne") is a ballet choreographed by Léonide Massine to music by Manuel de Falla. It was commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and premiered in 1919. It is not only a ballet with Spanish setting but one that also employs the techniques of Spanish dance (adapted and somewhat simplified) instead of classical ballet. During World War I, Manuel de Falla wrote a pantomime ballet in two scenes and called it "El corregidor y la molinera" ("The Magistrate and the Miller's Wife"). The work was scored for a small chamber
The Three-Cornered Hat as Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos and Jesús López-Cobos, and Leonard Bernstein has recorded the two suites from the ballet with the New York Philharmonic. The original pantomime "El corregidor y la molinera" has been recorded by Josep Pons and Orquestra del Teatro Lliure for Harmonia Mundi. The Paris Opera Ballet has issued a performance of the complete ballet on a DVD entitled "Picasso and Dance". The performance uses not only Massine's original choreography, but actual reproductions of Picasso's sets and costumes. The Three-Cornered Hat El sombrero de tres picos ("The Three-Cornered Hat" or "Le tricorne") is a ballet choreographed by