sentences:  Joan Manén's first works were very simple pieces for violin and piano, a lounge music written to be performed at the concerts he himself performed.In this way, the child prodigy could show off in front of the audience also on the side of composer.One of the works that was most successful among the public was a virtuous transcription made by Manén himself, a Vals-Jota on the famous zarzuela "El Duo de la Africana" by Manuel Fernández Caballero.