 He not only expressed these ideas in his many writings, but also through a series of works he composed throughout his career, from "Guzmán el bueno" (1876) to "Tabaré" (1913).His series of nine operas, two of them in only one act, are an ambitious body of work for Spanish composers of his time.After a long polemic which delayed its première, Los amantes de Teruel (1889) amounted to its definitive consolidation, and was followed by proposals along very different lines, such as the Wagnerian in "Garín" (1892) for the Barcelona Liceo and the veristic in "La Dolores" (1894) for the Madrilenian Teatro de la Zarzuela.