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Matilde Salvador – Endechas y Cantares de Sefard

Matilde Salvador Segarra (23 March 1918 – 5 October 2007) is a Spanish composer and painter.

Matilde Salvador grew up in a family with deep musical ties: her aunt and sister were pianists, and her father, a cellist, founded the Philharmonic Society of Castelló and the Castelló Conservatory, where Salvador studied. She also studied at the Valencia Conservatory, where she earned her piano degree in 1936 and completed her advanced degree in 1947. There, she studied harmony and composition with Vicent Asensio, who would eventually become her husband; they had a daughter in 1944. Asensio would also become her professional partner, and although each maintained their own stylistic uniqueness, both aligned with the model of Manuel de Falla. Matilde Salvador, however, was never part of the Grup dels Joves (Group of Youths), most likely due to her gender, despite sharing the nationalist and modernizing spirit that inspired them. In fact, as she herself would claim at the end of her life: ‘Everything I do is done in relation to my roots in the land,’ and the evidence that proves this is vast.

Matilde Salvador died of a stroke on 5 October 2007 in her native Valencia, aged 89.