Francisco Llácer Pla (1918 in Valencia – 2002 in Valencia) was a Spanish composer and choral conductor. He was one of the first Valencian composers who assimilated the postwar avantgarde approaches, combining it with lyricism and echoes of the Valencian folklore. Tomás Marco wrote: ''Llácer Pla offers a new, suggestive vision of a form of musical nationalism from a new, progressive perspective''. A professor at the

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, several of his progressive works are based in his harmonic investigations, such as his concept of heptafonism and his theory of the "balanced chord", based on the double sense of the sonorous bodies' resonance. On October 7, 2005 he was named Valencia's favorite son.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pla, Francisco Llacer Llacer Pla, Francisco Llacer Pla, Francisco 1918 births 2002 deaths 20th-century Spanish musicians 20th-century Spanish male musicians 20th-century classical composers