e started at a very young age to play in orchestras that, finally, made him tour all Spain and also appear in Portugal, France and, among other counties, Argentina, where he appeared at the Teatro Avenida in Buenos Aires.

He backed the work of famous singers and dancers like Imperio Argentina, Rafael de Córdoba, Vicente Escudero, La Rosario, and many others.

Sometimes he led an orchestra of his own, with a brother that played cello and a Argentine violinist whose name he did not remember. He used to play concerts at theaters in Barcelona. He was music teacher and his first composition, dates back to the time when he was twenty. It fell into oblivion like the about thirty ones he published even though renowned singers had some of them in their repertoires.

He wrote the background music for the movie Mercedes and songs in others and in theater plays.

He met Carlos Gardel in the late 1925 when the latter appeared at the Goya Theater of Barcelona and accompanied him in several songs and also practiced with him some of the ones he had brought from Buenos Aires. He always kept pleasant memories of our great singer, especially because the latter used to praise his piano playing and his taste with which he played tangos and other Argentine musical numbers.

In the early 1928 he was member of the famous orchestra led by Jaime Planas and with the latter he composed the tango “Oiga patrón”, with words by Gerardo Alcázar, that Gardel premiered at the Barcelona Theater in the city of the same name and, which he later recorded there but which was never released.

Betoret was born on January 6, 1900 in Perpignan (France).