Federico Mompou

Federico Mompou (1893-1987) was a Catalan composer and pianist, born and died in Barcelona, who wrote mostly for piano. He lived in Paris for long stretches between 1911 and 1941. His music is spare and full of bell-like sounds, an interest that goes back to the bells of his mother's family foundry. His late cycle Música callada was published in four books of piano pieces between 1959 and 1967. Mompou took piano lessons with Pere Serra at the Liceu conservatory in Barcelona. In Paris he studied piano with Ferdinand Motte-Lacroix and harmony with Marcel Samuel-Rousseau.