She is credited with bringing greater popularity to the compositions of Isaac Albéniz and Enrique Granados.

[8] De Larrocha, writes Jed Distler, "started composing at age seven and continued on and off until her 30th year, with a prolific spurt in her late teens," and while she never performed her works in public, she gave her family the choice of making them available after her death, which they have done.

[9] De Larrocha made numerous recordings of the solo piano repertoire and in particular the works of composers of her native Spain.

I would say, though, that Granados was one of the great Spanish composers, and that, in my opinion, he was the only one that captured the real Romantic flavor.

[10] Less than five feet tall and with small hands for a pianist,[2][3] spanning an interval of barely a tenth on the keyboard,[11] in her younger years she was nonetheless able to tackle all the big concertos (all five by Beethoven, Liszt's No.

2 and 3, both of Ravel's, and those of Prokofiev, Bartók, Bliss and Khachaturian, and many more), as well as the wide spans demanded by the music of Granados, Albéniz, and de Falla.

[3][5] Alicia de Larrocha died on 25 September 2009 in Quiron Hospital, Barcelona, aged 86.

She received honorary degrees from universities in Michigan, Middlebury College, Vermont, and Carnegie Mellon.