Biography
After completing his training in piano and composition at the Madrid Conservatory, Bautista later joined the faculty there as professor of harmony. Relocating to Buenos Aires in 1940, he built a career writing scores for films. His serious output draws on both Spanish and Argentinian idioms. The Spanish pieces, many destroyed in the Civil War, employ diatonic frameworks enriched by vivid ornamentation and shifting harmonies. Among his most prominent Argentinian works are Cantar del Mio Cid and Sonata concertina a 4.