Joan Manén was part of a generation of musicians that played a key role in the renewal of choral music in Catalonia, thus becoming a bridge between Modernisme (Catalan Modern Style) and Noucentisme (early 20th-century Catalan cultural movement). During the first quarter of the 20th century ?and thanks to his intuition and musical feeling?, Manén succeeded in composing a whole repertoire of magnificent and rich works unique at that time in Catalonia. In his Cinc Cors (Five Choirs), all of them written to be performed by the Orfeó Català, we may observe a wish to be a reflection of the great forms of Central European music in order to make the Catalan musical spirit achieve a true international level.