The Group of Eight (also known by its Spanish name ) was a group of Spanish

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

s and

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, including

Jesús Bal y Gay Jesús Bal y Gay (23 June 1905 – 3 March 1993) 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 a ...

, Ernesto Halffter and his brother

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Juan José Mantecón Juan José Mantecón (1895-1964) 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, Ferna ...

Julián Bautista Julián Bautista (21 April 1901 – 8 July 1961) 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 ...

Fernando Remacha Fernando Remacha Villar (15 December 1898 – 21 February 1984) was a Spanish composer, part of the Group of Eight which formed a sub-set of the Generation of '27. Early years Remacha was born in Tudela, Navarre on 15 December 1898. At the ...

Rosa García Ascot Rosa García Ascot (8 April 1902 in Madrid – 2 May 2002 in Torrelaguna, Madrid) was a Spanish composer and pianist. She was the only woman in the famed Group of Eight (music), Group of Eight, whose members also included Julián Bautista, Erne ...

, Salvador Bacarisse and Gustavo Pittaluga. The group, loosely modelled on Les Six and The Five (similar nationalist coalitions of composers), was formed in 1930 to oppose musical conservatism in Spain. Its members, who were closely allied to the literary movement Generation of '27, met in Madrid's

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to perform avant-garde works and discuss the aesthetics of music. The group came to an end with the Spanish Civil War and the ensuing

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when most of its members left Madrid or went into exile abroad.Hess, Carol A. (2005)
''Sacred Passions: The Life and Music of Manuel de Falla''
p. 174. Oxford University Press.

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