ASENCIO, VINCENTE (1908 - 1979)
The life of Vincente Asencio overlapped those of both the new-wave romantic and the avant-garde Spanish composers, but he did not quite fit into either category. He rejected atonality as 'uninteresting' and though he declared himself to be a 'tonal' composer his was not the cloudless tonality of, for instance, Granados or Albéniz. Although his music often expressed uncomplicated and ebullient joy, it perhaps more often reflected his quiet, reflective and devout character; he described himself as 'un intimiste' and underlined it with his Collectici intím.