Agnès Armengol
Agnès Armengol i Altayó was a Spanish writer, pianist, composer, promoter of women's participation in the Catalanist movement.
Early life and education
The daughter of a family of textile manufacturers, her education began at Les Escolàpies in Sabadell before continuing her studies in Barcelona and at the Occitan boarding school Pension Catalane, in Castres. During these years, she trained in music education and began to show her talents as a writer, musician and composer.Career
She signed his first musical compositions with the pseudonym "Graziella", inspired by the name of one of her favorite works, the romantic novel Graziella, by Alphonse de Lamartine . With this name, Armengol entered several music competitions, where she won some prizes. She is especially remembered for Suspirs, which won a prize in a musical competition in Chicago in 1893.Armengol published some poems in various magazines from Sabadell and Barcelona, such as Lo Catalanista, Revista de Sabadell, or La Llumanera de Nova York, and various writings in defense of the Catalan language, culture and traditions. In this spirit, she wrote the poetry collection Cant a la senyera for the Orfeó de Sabadell, the poem "Rosari antic" and contributed to resurrecting the "Ball del Ciri" and the "Dance of Castellterçol".
Death and legacy
She died in Sabadell at the age of 82 and her burial constituted a public mourning in Sabadell. The Agnès Armengol i Altayó Fund is at the Bosch i Cardellach Foundation in Sabadell. A city street and a school bear her name today.Selected works
LaysRamell de Semprevives Agnès Armengol i Altayó, in Feminal, no. 122, 24 June 1917- 1912. Redempció. Collecció Feminals.
- 1925. Sabadellenques i altres poesies. Sabadell: Biblioteca Sabadellenca, 3.
- 1925. Redempció. Sabadell: Biblioteca Sabadellenca, 4.
- 1926. Els dies clars. Sabadell: Biblioteca Sabadellenca, 7.
- 1926. Rosari antic. Tradicions i records. Sabadell: Biblioteca Sabadellenca, 10.
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- 1893. Montanyana.
- 1919. Al Montserrat.
- 1919. Na Marió.
- 1926. San Josep.
- 1927. La bona masovera.
- 1927. La nit i la diada de San Joan.