In January 2026 it was made official the creation of the Robert Gerhard Foundation, dedicated to the dissemination of the work of one of the most relevant Catalan composers of the 20th century, born in Valls in 1896 and died in Cambridge in 1970. According to the president of the Foundation, Edmon Colomer, one of the purposes was that "the musical self-esteem of the country should be translated into cultural facts". The first translation arrived this Friday with the presentation of the first Robert Gerhard Biennial, promoted by the same foundation and L'Auditori, with the collaboration of Esmuc, the Museum of Music and the Friends of Music and Valls. The program will unfold in different spaces in Barcelona and Valls from September 30 to November 22.

The creation of the Robert Gerhard Foundation, dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge, was officially announced this Thursday at an event in the Levante Room of the Library of Catalonia. the work of one of the most important Catalan composers of the 20th centuryBorn in Valls in 1896 and died in Cambridge in 1970. The choice of location makes perfect sense: Gerhard worked as a librarian in the music section, and this is one of the institutions that houses his works, along with Valls and Cambridge, as noted by the director of the Library of Catalonia, Eugènia Serra, who was delighted with the initiative to promote the "recognition and dissemination" of Gerhard's work.