Llegenda

Pere Valls’ work was strongly influenced by the Modernist musical movement, seeking authenticity based on roots in popular and folk music, and also by the influence of Romanticism and Wagnerism, so much present in the musical Barcelona of the first quarter of the 20th century. He himself took part in the activities of the Barcelona Wagnerian Association, an organisation founded in 1901, which was the first on the Iberian Peninsula popularising the work of the German composer who greatly influenced the author.
To his long collaboration and friendship with the master Pau Casals, he dedicated with emotion this beautiful and melancholy work Llegenda (Legend) in a single movement, Andante, for cello and piano in a minor key, which he composed just before giving up his participation as the double bass soloist in the Pau Casals Orchestra in 1934 because of the progressive deterioration of his health.

Pere Valls Pech