[2] Her younger sister Blanca Renard was also an internationally-acclaimed pianist,[3] who later taught in Alabama.

[4] Rosa studied in Germany under Martin Krause, and won the Liszt Prize while in Berlin.

She continued touring occasionally, and performed in Canada, Mexico, and throughout South America, as well as in many American cities.

[6][8] The highest point of her career[9] came after 1945, when she started an artistic cooperation with conductor Erich Kleiber.

[2] She died in Santiago soon after her Carnegie Hall recital, in May 1949, aged 55 years,[8] after contracting a rare and fatal form of sleeping sickness from a mosquito bite.