Presenting a group of Spanish composers born at the dawn of the twentieth century who, after suffering the terrible consequences of the civil war as their creative drive flowered, and the reprisals or contempt of a rancorous dictatorship whose cultural fruits were few and shabby, were relegated to an interminable oblivion which continues still.

The so-called “Generation of 27” (the musical rather than the literary generation) or the “Generation of the Republic” brought together a substantial group of composers with shared lines of style and thinking -- and all shared a wish to renew music in Spain.

This was a period where art bloomed - in the words of Gómez de la Serna, this was like a “Christmas Eve for Spanish music” – enhanced by the unprecedented interaction of artistic disciplines and the conflict of the successive Second Republic governments to normalise Spanish music policy in an all-embracing plan which, while never applied in full, at least sorted the country’s broken-down musical infrastructure. And in fact, the significant involvement of many of the composers of this generation in the music policy of the Second Republic, in organisational or management posts, also turned out to be their conflict to exile after the end of the civil war.