Guitarist and composer, born in Tavernes de la Valldigna (Valencian Community). He studied guitar together with his friend Antonio Company (* 1922) with Salvador García (1891-1964), a former pupil of Francisco Tárrega. For the sake of music lessons with García, they walked or rode by train every Sunday to Gandia, where García lived. Later Chover Salom was engaged with Tavernes de la Valldigna through the cultural revitalization of the town in the postwar period and through the study of the folklore of the region, which he published with the musicological project of his teacher, Manuel Palau. After obtaining the title of composition in the Conservatory of Valencia he obtained destiny like Director of the military band of Cádiz, city to which he was linked during more than 40 years, where he taught guitar, harmony and composition and maintained a special relationship with the “Manuel de Falla” Conservatory, which awarded him the Gold Medal in 1989 without being part of his faculty at any time.
(Rainer Stelle)