When she returned to Venezuela two years later she composed 16 pieces of musical theatre, a collaboration with poet Olga Capriles, and the musician and composer Juan Vicente Lecuna. In 1918 she married the German Federico Wolf and they moved to
Puerto Cabello. They had three children, Waldemar, Irma, and Ivan Wolf González, but divorced afterward. She went on to marry the violinist and composer José Antonio Escobar Saluzzo (1877-1970) in Caracas. With this union, she had another son, Toney Escobar González. With Saluzzo, and the musician/composer
Pedro Antonio Ríos Reyna, in addition to other artists, she initiated the instrumental vocal group "Quintet Ávila" of which she was a singer and arranger. On July 11, 1928 she recorded for
Victor Talking Machine Company in a studio in Caracas her compositions "Alondras", "Mar adentro", "Tu maldad", and "Ángel de mis sueños". In these recordings, her name is credited as "Maritza Graxirena" in deference to her
Catalan maternal surname. In honor of her career as a researcher, musician, singer, and composer, as well as her fight in favor of authors and composers, María Luisa Escobar obtained the National Prize of Music in the year 1984, a few months before her death in
Caracas on 14 May 1985. ==Awards==