Subtitled '' Musical setting for a civic social war drama '' , it was conceived as a homage to the Republican effort in the Spanish Civil War after the war ended with the victory of the National faction and the establishment of a repressive dictatorship , and marked the composer 's creative retirement for four decades . It was written in Viascón , a hamlet in Pontevedra where Fernández Blanco , a Republican cultural officer during the war , hid from reprisals . The work consists of three episodes titled '' Desolation '' , '' Action '' and '' Hommage to the heroes '' , respectively a gloomy introduction , a frantic ostinato march and a glorifying hymn including quotations from The Internationale and Whirlwinds of Danger
repressive
White Terror (Spain)
Dramatic Overture (Fernández Blanco)