"The music for guitar written by ""The Group of Eight"".
The guitar repertoire of avant-garde nationalism was born with Manuel de Falla's "Homage to Debussy" (1920), the first work written by a non-guitarist composer that had national and international repercussions. The rest of the works included are composed by each of the members of the Group of Eight: Julián Bautista, Rosa García Ascot, Rodolfo Halffter, Gustavo Pittaluga, Fernando Remacha, Ernesto Halffter, Juan José Mantecón and Salvador Bacarisse."
The Group of Eight was a group of Spanish composers and musicologists, loosely modeled 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 Residencia de Estudiantes to perform avant-garde works and discuss the aesthetics of music.