(1902 -1979)
Rafael Rodriguez Albert was blind from an early age; studied in Valencia and travelled to Paris in the 1930s where he mixed with various French composers, and then in 1940 came in contact with Falla. He followed a career as composer and pianist as well as being a professor at the Madrid School for the blind. Albert’s compositions attracted various prizes in their day, but are rarely heard today. The body of his guitar works is dated from the 1930s through the ‘70s.

Rafael Rodriguez Albert fu pianista, compositore e professore di storia ed estetica della musica al Colegio Nacional de Ciegos in Madrid. Non vedente fin dalla tenera età, ebbe ciononostante una proficua carriera musicale, entrando in contatto con Poulenc, Honegger, Milhaud, Ravel e de Falla. Le sue composizioni, che ricoprono quasi tutti i generi musicali, gli valsero vari riconoscimenti, tra i quali il primo premio al Liège International Guitar Competition nel 1962 con la Sonatina en tres duales.