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Falla, Manuel de. Autograph musical quotation signed, 1 page (10.37 x 7.12 in.; 264 x 181 mm.), [no place, no date]; some light browning, mounting remnants on verso. A lengthy quotation from The Three-Cornered Hat, fully scored for piano, harp and orchestra. During World War I, Manuel de Falla wrote a pantomime ballet in two scenes and called it The Magistrate and the Miller's Wife (El corregidor y la molinera). The work was scored for a small chamber orchestra and was performed in 1917. Sergei Diaghilev, of the Ballets Russes, saw the premiere of El corregidor y la molinera and commissioned Falla to rewrite it. The outcome was a two-act ballet scored for large orchestra called The Three-Cornered Hat (El sombrero de tres picos). This was first performed in London at the Alhambra Theatre on 22 July 1919. Pablo Picasso created the sets and costumes. Choreography was by Léonide Massine. Diaghilev asked Falla to conduct the premiere but the composer felt he was not experienced enough to conduct a work so complex, and he handed the baton to Ernest Ansermet after one rehearsal. The story, a magistrate infatuated with a miller's faithful wife attempts to seduce her, derives from the novella by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón of Granada. Together with: Postcard photograph inscribed and signed, ("à Madame Jane Evrard en souvenir bien dévoué Manuel de Falla Anncey, VIII, 1936") in French, (5.37 x 3.5 in.; 137 x 89 mm.), 1936; top corners clipped, mounting remnants recto and verso.