In 1914, the palaeontologist Hugo Obermaier – a man who would later become the master of an entire generation of Spanish palaeontologists and prehistorians – moved to Madrid, welcomed by the Comisión de Investigaciones Paleontológicas y Prehistóricas de la JAE. In the same year, Alfonso Reyes also arrived in Madrid, where he would live until 1924, collaborating with the Centro de Estudios Históricos (CEH) and paying frequent trips to the Residencia de Estudiantes. During his time in Spain, Dominican philologist Pedro Henríquez Ureña also collaborated with the CEH, a link that would continue in his work with Amado Alonso in Buenos Aires. After the crisis that led to his participation in the war, JB Trend, the musician and future first Spanish lecturer at the University of Cambridge (1933), travelled to Spain in 1919 where he met Manuel de Falla and Federico García Lorca, visited Cossío in the Institución Libre de Enseñanza and became acquainted with Alberto Jiménez Fraud and the Residencia, with which he would collaborate until 1936. Trend undertook the difficult task of investigating and salvaging old Spanish music – madrigals in particular, which he made known throughout the world, managing to get them included in the repertoires of reputable British groups. In addition, he propelled the incorporation of the works of various Spanish composers, such as Albéniz, Falla and Gerhard, into the European musical canon and spread the success of Giner and ILE’s modernisation project through his books.
José Moreno Villa, Retrato de J. B. Trend, 1928. Tinta sobre papel. Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid.