Rodolfo Halffter

Born into a musical family in Madrid, Halffter was largely self-taught as a composer while studying Schoenberg’s Harmonielehre and receiving mentorship from Manuel de Falla. Early involvement with the modernist Grupo de los Ocho shaped his neoclassical, mildly polytonal style, and he also worked as a music critic for several Madrid newspapers before the Civil War. After emigrating to Mexico in 193… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources