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Rosa Harriet Newmarch (18 December 1857 – 9 April 1940) was an English poet and musicologist.
Beginning in 1897 she did a great deal of research on Russian music, making many visits to Russia and working at the Imperial Public Library of Saint Petersburg under the supervision of Vladimir Stassov. She became one of the first English critics to champion Russian music. After 1915 she performed a similar service for Slovakia music.
From 1907 she edited the Living Masters of Music book series for John Lane.Publisher's advertisement in: Rosa Newmarch, The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, London: John Lane/The Bodley Head and New York: John Lane Company, 1906. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
From 1908 until 1920 she wrote programme notes for the New Queen's Hall Orchestra, and for The Proms. From 1919 she was assisted in respect of new works to the repertoire by Eric Blom, then in the early stages of his writing career. Newmarch's existing notes for established works continued to appear in the programmes. Newmarch and Blom continued to write in tandem until 1927, when the BBC took over the concerts.Frank Howes, "Blom, Eric (Walter)" in Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th edition, Supplementary Volume, 1961H. C. Colles, "Newmarch, Rosa", Grove's Dictionary, 5th edition, Eric Blom, ed. 1954
Newmarch died in Worthing in 1940, aged 82. She was the great-grandmother of comedian Sara Pascoe.
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