IN CÁDIZ, UNDER THE SEA
On 14 November 1946, nine days before his seventieth birthday, Manuel de Falla died in his sleep at his house in Alta Gracia as the result of a heart attack. On 22 December his body was taken on board a ship bound for Spain and, accompanied by his sister María del Carmen, it arrived in Cádiz on 9 January 1947. His remains were finally laid to rest in the cathedral crypt of his native city.
In his book of memoirs La arboleda perdida, Rafael Alberti recounts a visit he made as an octogenarian to see Manuel de Falla’s tomb in the cathedral crypt. With evocative and nostalgic words, full of gentleness, Alberti writes: “And now he is here, in these depths of Cádiz, surrounded by darting fish that disturb his dreams”41[41] ALBERTI, R. La arboleda perdida (second part). Barcelona, Seix Barral, 1987, p. 229..
In his book of memoirs La arboleda perdida, Rafael Alberti recounts a visit he made as an octogenarian to see Manuel de Falla’s tomb in the cathedral crypt. With evocative and nostalgic words, full of gentleness, Alberti writes: “And now he is here, in these depths of Cádiz, surrounded by darting fish that disturb his dreams”41[41] ALBERTI, R. La arboleda perdida (second part). Barcelona, Seix Barral, 1987, p. 229..
