Rosa García Ascot

Rosa García Ascot (1902 – 2 May 2002, Torrelaguna) was a Spanish composer and pianist. She was the only woman in the famed Group of Eight, whose members also included Julián Bautista, Ernesto Halffter and his brother Rodolfo, Juan José Mantecón, Fernando Remacha, Salvador Bacarisse and Jesús Bal y Gay. She married Bal y Gay in 1933. Her more notable compositions include Suite para orquesta, Preludio, and Concierto para piano y orquesta.^[1]

Considered the last disciple of Manuel de Falla, she was an exponent of his music as a concert pianist. Before studying with de Falla in Madrid she was a pupil of Felipe Pedrell. She later studied with Enrique Granados. She spent ten years in the early part of her career actively touring as a concert soloist and recitalist. Afterwords, her public concerts were relatively few and always in very special circumstances. She died at the age of 100 in Madrid.^[1]

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