A conductor, teacher and historian. While studying music (with Lluïsa Torrà, Narcís Carbonell and Eduard Toldrà), he gained his doctorate in history.
He conducted the Sant Jordi Choir from its beginnings in 1947 down to 1991, conducting that choir in over a thousand concerts.
He made a number of contributions to music in the form of essays, articles and criticism in many written and oral media.
He regularly contributed to the newspaper Diari de Barcelona (having been taken in there thanks to Dr. Alberto del Castillo, who had taught him at the university) until the time that newspaper closed, writing reviews of recordings and material for the section Moment Musical.
He was the founding secretary and vice-president of the federation Europa Cantat, the first president of the choral-group association Federació Catalana d'Entitats Corals, and artistic director of the anthology of Catalan music 'Antologia històrica de la música catalana'.
In 1983 he became a lecturer in the history of music at the University of Barcelona (where he had already been teaching since 1969, and where he was director of the History of Art Department from 1987 to 1993).
He was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi (St. George Cross), the Autonomous Government of Catalonia's National Music Prize, the Gold Medal for Artistic Merit by the Barcelona City Council, the Jaume I Prize, and the Fine Arts Medal by the Ministry of Culture, among other distinctions.
He wrote books, studies, essays etc. on Catalan music, choral music, Pau Casals, Frederic Mompou, Eduard Toldrà, 'Els segadors' ('The Reapers' - a Catalan song), etc., and the first volume of his book 'Quasi un segle de simfonisme a Barcelona' ('Nearly a century of symphonic music in Barcelona') was published recently.
From 1992 to 1995 he was a Socialist member of parliament in the Parlament de Catalunya, and vice-president of its Culture Commission.
