Group of Eight (music)

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The Group of Eight (Spanish: [Grupo de los Ocho] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) 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 Six and The Five, similar nationalistic coalitions of composers.

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