Fernando Remacha

Spanish composer born in Tudela (Navarra), 15 December 1898 – died in Pamplona (Navarra), 21 February 1984, part of the "Group of Eight" in 1930 which was a Spanish composers and musicologists collective to fight against musical conservatism in Spain including Jesús Bal y Gay, Ernesto Halffter, Rodolfo Halffter, Juan José Mantecón, Julián Bautista, Fernando Remacha, Rosa García Ascot, Salvador Bacarisse and Gustavo Pittaluga which formed a sub-set of the "Generation of '27".The group came to an end with the Spanish Civil War and the ensuing Franco dictatorship when most of its members left Madrid or went into exile abroad.