Rosa García Ascot was a Spanish composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 and pianist

Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

. She was the only woman in the famed Group of Eight

Group of Eight (music)

The Group of Eight was a group of Spanish composers and musicologists, including Jesús Bal y Gay, Ernesto Halffter and his brother Rodolfo, Juan José Mantecón, Julián Bautista, Fernando Remacha, Rosa García Ascot, Salvador Bacarisse and Gustavo Pittaluga. The group was founded in the spirit of Les...

, whose members also included Julián Bautista

Julián Bautista

Julián Bautista was a Spanish composer and conductor. He was a member of Generation of '27 and the Group of Eight, the latter of which also included composers Jesús Bal y Gay, Ernesto Halffter and his brother Rodolfo, Juan José Mantecón, Fernando Remacha, Rosa García Ascot, Salvador Bacarisse and...

, Ernesto Halffter

Ernesto Halffter

Ernesto Halffter Escriche was a Spanish composer and conductor. He was the brother of Rodolfo Halffter....

 and his brother Rodolfo

Rodolfo Halffter

Rodolfo Halffter Escriche was a Spanish composer.-Life:Born in Madrid, Spain into a family of musicians, he was the brother of Ernesto Halffter and uncle of Cristóbal Halffter, also composers. His father Ernesto Halffter Hein came from Königsberg, Germany...

, Juan José Mantecón

Juan José Mantecón

Juan José Mantecón was a Spanish composer. He was a member of Generation of '27 and the Group of Eight, the latter of which also included composers Jesús Bal y Gay, Ernesto Halffter and his brother Rodolfo, Julián Bautista, Fernando Remacha, Rosa García Ascot, Salvador Bacarisse and Gustavo...

, Fernando Remacha

Fernando Remacha

Fernado Remacha Villar was a composer, part of the Group of Eight which formed a sub-set of the Generation of '27.-Early years:...

, Salvador Bacarisse

Salvador Bacarisse

Salvador Bacarisse Chinoria was a Spanish composer.Bacarisse was born in Madrid and studied music at the Real Conservatorio de Música there, as a student of Manuel Fernández Alberdi and Conrado del Campo...

 and Jesús Bal y Gay

Jesús Bal y Gay

Jesús Bal y Gay was a Spanish composer, music critic, and musicologist. He was a member of Generation of '27 and the Group of Eight, the latter of which also included composers Julián Bautista, Ernesto Halffter and his brother Rodolfo, Juan José Mantecón, Fernando Remacha, Rosa García Ascot,...

. She married Bal y Gay in 1933. Her more notable compositions include Suite para orquesta, Preludio, and Concierto para piano y orquesta.

Considered the last disciple of Manuel de Falla

Manuel de Falla

Manuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish Andalusian composer of classical music. With Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados and Joaquín Turina he is one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century....

, 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

Felipe Pedrell

Felip Pedrell , was a Spanish Catalan composer. He worked as a musicologist and early music specialist and edited Victoria’s opera omnia and the requiem of Joan Brudieu. This and other of his writings fostered a keen interest in the early music of Spain...

. She later studied with Enrique Granados

Enrique Granados

Enrique Granados y Campiña was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, representative of musical nationalism...

. 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.