Fernando de los Rios persuaded García Lorca's parents to let him move to the progressive, Oxbridge-inspired Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid in 1919, while nominally attending classes at the University of Madrid. In 19, García Lorca traveled throughout Castile, León, and Galicia, in northern Spain, with a professor of his university, who also encouraged him to write his first book, Impresiones y paisajes ( Impressions and Landscapes-printed at his father's expense in 1918). His milieu of young intellectuals gathered in El Rinconcillo at the Café Alameda in Granada. García Lorca did not turn to writing until Segura's death in 1916, and his first prose works, such as "Nocturne", "Ballade", and "Sonata", drew on musical forms. Later, with his friendship with composer Manuel de Falla, Spanish folklore became his muse. His first artistic inspirations arose from scores by Claude Debussy, Frédéric Chopin and Ludwig van Beethoven. It was Segura who inspired Federico's dream of a career in music. When he was 11 years old, he began six years of piano lessons with Antonio Segura Mesa, a harmony teacher in the local conservatory and a composer. Throughout his adolescence, he felt a deeper affinity for music than for literature.
During this time his studies included law, literature, and composition. In 1915, after graduating from secondary school, García Lorca attended the University of Granada. García Lorca with his sister Isabel García Lorca in Granada c. All three of these homes-Fuente Vaqueros, Valderrubio, and Huerta de San Vicente-are today museums. For the rest of his life, he maintained the importance of living close to the natural world, praising his upbringing in the country. In 1909, when the boy was 11, his family moved to the regional capital of Granada, where there was the equivalent of a high school their best-known residence there is the summer home called the Huerta de San Vicente, on what were then the outskirts of the city of Granada. After Fuente Vaqueros, the family moved in 1905, to the nearby town of Valderrubio (at the time named Asquerosa). García Lorca's mother, Vicenta Lorca Romero, was a teacher. García Rodríguez saw his fortunes rise with a boom in the sugar industry. His father, Federico García Rodríguez, was a prosperous landowner with a farm in the fertile vega (valley) near Granada and a comfortable villa in the heart of the city. His remains have never been found, and the motive remains in dispute some theorize he was targeted for being gay, a socialist, or both, while others view a personal dispute as the more likely cause.įederico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was born on 5 June 1898, in Fuente Vaqueros, a small town 17 km west of Granada, southern Spain. García Lorca was assassinated by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
García Lorca had a close emotional relationship for a time with Salvador Dalí, who said he rejected García Lorca's sexual advances. García Lorca was gay and suffered from depression after the end of his relationship with sculptor Emilio Aladrén Perojo. After a sojourn in New York City from 1929 to 1930-documented posthumously in Poeta en Nueva York ( Poet in New York, 1942)-he returned to Spain and wrote his best-known plays, Blood Wedding (1932), Yerma (1934), and The House of Bernarda Alba (1936). His poetry incorporated traditional Andalusian motifs and avant-garde styles. He initially rose to fame with Romancero gitano ( Gypsy Ballads, 1928), a book of poems depicting life in his native Andalusia. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group consisting mostly of poets who introduced the tenets of European movements (such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) into Spanish literature. Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca ( English: / ɡ ɑːr ˌ s iː ə ˈ l ɔːr k ə/ gar- SEE-ə LOR-kə), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director.
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