Composer
and musicologist. A scholarship for study in
Rome exposed him to the great past of Spanish music preserved in
archives there, and he set about reviving the tradition by bringing to
light both folk and older art music and by promoting a national style
of composition. He believed that a nation should base its music on its
folk-song. His own works include operas and orchestral and choral
works. He is regarded as the father of Spanish musical nationalism.