His early musical studies were with his father, Trino Esplá, and with Fernando Lloret and Juan Latorre Baeza [es].

[3] In 1911, after winning an international prize, he went to Austria and Germany; he met Ferdinand Löwe in Vienna, and Max Reger in Meiningen.

Instead, because of the Spanish Civil War, he left Spain and went with his family to Belgium, where he worked for Le Soir, which at that time was under Nazi control.

[2]: 399  With Roberto Gerhard, Frederic Mompou and Adolfo Salazar, he was a part of the Spanish Grupo de los cuatro.

[2]: 389 He died in Madrid on 6 January 1976,[3] and was buried in the church of the Monasterio de la Santa Faz [es] in Alicante.