La Sinfonietta de Ernesto Halffter y las formas preclásicas

Abstract

In this article it is spoken, from different aspects (social, formal, and stylistic), of the Sinfonietta in Re maggiore of Ernesto Halffter, one of the first works of the musical Neoclasicism in Spain, agreeing with belle époe. This style settled down in Europe in those years of the first world-wide postwar period of very personal and individual way by means of very influential composers, as they were Stravinsky (in the Parisian nucleus), and in the Spanish case Falla (in Granada). The aesthetic conception of this last one in those years served as bastion for young composers like Ernesto Halffter. The general commentary of the Sinfonietta, from its process of gestation to its opening, including in addition a brief superficial study to its forms, serves to explain and to justify the final result of this work, and to the connexion with last times.