ESSAYS ON ROBERTO GERHARD

For much of the mid-twentieth century, Roberto Gerhard found himself an outsider. He was airbrushed from much writing on contemporar y music in Spain during the Franco regime, and was known in England more for his commercial music for theatre, film and radio than h is concert works. However, his significance as a musical innovator in developing serial technique and in the field of electro-acoust ics is now being gradually recognised in both Spain and England, as well as further afield.