Education
In 1944 he was briefly jailed for taking part in protests against the Francoist dictatorship, and after he finished his studies in 1949 he couldn"t find a job since he lacked the certificate of adherence to the regime, so he went to exile, settling in Geneva after studying orchestral conducting under Bernardo Molinari in Rome and Eugène Bigot in Paris.
Career
He composed four operas, two symphonies, four concertos and six string quartets. = Symphony orchestra = Strings orchestra = Chamber orchestra = Cello = Piano = Guitar = Violin = Duos = Trios = Quartets = Guitar = Violin = Cello = With orchestra = A cappella = with orchestra = with chamber ensemble = with piano = with other solo instrument.
Politics
Like Xavier Montsalvatge and Manuel Castillo he has been defined as a missing link in the postwar Spanish music, as he was influenced by Shostakovichian modernism while the Spanish scene evolved from nationalism to the Darmstadt avantgarde through his contemporaries of the 1951 Generation.