Campo studied on the Madrid Conservatory and served being a violinist and violist from the symphony orchestra from the Teatro True. He took a posture on the Madrid Conservatory in 1915 and became the main professor of structure in Spain at that time. His compositional curiosity lay down in the German design, taking a Wagnerian types of unending melody and leitmotif. His dramatic and orchestral functions are often an attempt to reconcile these German likes along with his Spanish traditions, such as his opera Un Avapiés (1918), created in cooperation with Angel Barrios.