Revolutionary Quartet, l'enigma Gerhard

Direction: Xavier Bosch and Josep Badell | 2023 | Spain | 94 minutes

The Valls-born musician Robert Gerhard was one of the most important and mysterious composers of the 20th century, although he is still little recognised due to his status as an exile in England after the Spanish Civil War and because part of his work is still waiting to be discovered. This incisive review of his life and work deciphers the depth and idiosyncrasy - between the popular and the avant-garde - of a key author of dodecaphonism and serialism, as well as a hidden pioneer of electronic music.