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Fantasía Bética (or Fantasy Betic) is a composition for piano by Manuel de Falla. it was composed in 1919 and marked the transition from Falla’s impressionistic style for the piano into a more modern virtuosic period of his piano music. Baetica is the Latin name for Andalusia.The piece takes under a quarter of an hour to perform.It was commissioned by and dedicated to the Polish virtuoso Arthur Rubinstein. He planned to perform it in Barcelona in 1919 but had not learnt it sufficiently well.

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