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Next Friday, April 10, 2026, at 8:30 p.m., the concert “Gaudí en notes and lines. A life with Catalan music” will take place in the Sala de Llevant of the Biblioteca de Catalunya, by tenor Jordi Cortada and pianist Josep Buforn.

This concert evokes the life and spirit of Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926), the modernist genius of Catalan architecture, on the centenary of his death.

The program is inspired by key stages in Gaudí’s life: childhood and training, the emergence of modernism, the creative apogee, and spiritual transcendence. And it does so through the music and texts of authors who were contemporaries and friends of the architect and who were part of the Catalan cultural movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

It includes works by Amadeu Vives, Enric Granados, Isabel Güell, Enric Morera, Eduard Toldrà and Robert Gerhard, among other composers. With texts by Jacint Verdaguer, Josep Maria de Sagarra, Apel·les Mestres, Josep Carner, Àngel Guimerà, Joan Maragall, Víctor Balaguer and Josep Maria López-Picó, among other authors.

The pieces, all for tenor and piano (or lyrical adaptations), combine popular songs, lieder and fragments of operas, and reflect both the Catalan musical nationalism that resonated at the time and a Gaudi vision that fuses art, nature and tradition.

Admission is free with limited capacity.