Luis de los Cobos Almaraz (Valladolid, 20 April 1927 – Geneva, 16 November 2012) was a Spanish composer. In 1944 he was briefly jailed for taking part in protests against the Francoist dictatorship, and after he finished his studies in 1949 he couldn't find a job since he lacked the certificate of adherence to the regime, so he went to exile, settling in Geneva after studying orchestral conducting under Bernardo Molinari in Rome and Eugène Bigot in Paris. Like Xavier Montsalvatge and Manuel Castillo he has been defined as a missing link in the postwar Spanish music, as he was influenced by Shostakovichian modernism while the Spanish scene evolved from nationalism to the Darmstadt avantgarde through his contemporaries of the 1951 Generation. He composed four operas, two symphonies, four concertos and six string quartets.
La gloria de Don Ramiro (1975)Mariana Pineda (1982)La Pasión de Gregorio (1983)The Incarnation of Desire (1994)Winnie the Pooh (1992)Symphony No. 1 ″Cursus Vitae″ (1956)Agonía recurrente (1966)Symphony No. 2 ″El pinar perdido″ (2012)Jungla 1967 (1967)SoJin Suite (música para un nacimiento y un bautizo) (1991)Cuentos de la princesita (2002)Cello Concerto No. 1 (1958)Cello Concerto No. 2 ″De la resurrección″ (1981)Album del olvido (1982), for two pianos and orchestraConcierto de Nerja (1991)Concierto de los cercos (1995)Rapsodia de la espera (2004)Nana de la madre pobre (1952), for cello and pianoElegía a las manos de una muchacha (1952), for cello and pianoRetrato del olvido y ojos de pájaro herido (1983), for cello and pianoDuo para violín y viola (1985)Sonata del cisne (2003), for violin and pianoNana del Campogrande (2006), for violin and pianoBlue Talks (1987), for two pianos and percussionString Quartet No. 1 ″De la pequeña muerte″ (1978)String Quartet No. 2 ″Una princesa de Kranach en el tren″ (1983)Serenata caprichosa (1987), for flute, bassoon, harp and guitarString Quartet No. 3 ″La nada y el mar″ (1988)String Quartet No. 4 ″De la ausencia″ (1993)String Quartet No. 5 ″Del ensueño″ (1999)String Quartet No. 6 ″Juego de la vida y de la muerte″ (2000)Añejo mosaico (1952)Caprichos (1987)Ariana Suite (1996)Oración paralela (Requiem) (1977)Misa de Requiem (1996)Miserere (1950)La tierra de Alvargonzález (1951)Hijo del sol y de la sombra (1956)Nocturno (1952)Hacia el Sur se fue el domingo (1966)Tres cuentos populares (1978)Cinco cantos (1981)Cuatro lieder para cantaor flamenco (1981)La destrucción o el amor (1981)Weinheber Lieder (1996)Suite Ferrández (1997)Canciones en el estilo popular (1950)Homenaje a Miguel Hernández (1952)La voz a tí debida (1985)Canciones para mezzo y guitarra (1985)Cuatro piezas blancas (1986), for soprano and two clarinetsSuite infantil (1986) 
