sentences:  In 1930 he founded and presided over the Barcelona Philharmonic Society ("Societat Filarmònica de Barcelona"), an influential entity in the Barcelona musical atmosphere that programmed several concerts.His strong and demanding character and his indolent attitude towards the Franco regime made him, at the same time, loved and hated by the society of the moment; The impositions of the dictatorship prompted him to replace Catalan for a lifetime by the Spanish and to timidly approach the Franco regime in order to maintain his artistic activity throughout the country.He died in 1971 and was buried in the Cementiri de Montjuïc in Barcelona.