He became conductor of the Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra, and later taught at Las Palmas Conservatory.
Between 1921 and 1941 he wrote four volumes of arrangements of classic Spanish poetry, "Canciones clásicas españolas".
One of the poems, "La casada infiel", was written by his friend Federico García Lorca.
His orchestral work "El Poema de la Jungla" is inspired by The Jungle Book stories by Rudyard Kipling.
[3] Many of his contemporaries left Spain to find fame in France, but Obradors remained true to his Catalan roots.