FEDERICO MOMPOU

Whether it is an atmospheric piano piece, or a union of poetry with music in a song, Mompou creates the desired mood in a unique manner; Schwerké remarks: [He] makes an immediate conquest of the heart and there is no exegetical system or method of chemical analysis nice enough to discover his secret. The manner he faced compositional problems would not vary with the passing of the years, he maintained an immutable attitude sometimes passive, at other times agitated, waiting for a miracle in which the notes and chords just emerged spontaneously from his piano, and that he could just trace with his fine sharpened pencil, and capture those sounds that sympathized with his sensitivity and could built the fine architecture of his musical scores.