Narcisa Freixas


Narcisa Freixas i Cruells was a Catalan sculptor, painter and composer. She was born in Sabadell, Barcelona, the daughter of Pere Freixas Sabater, and first studied painting and sculpture with Modest Urgell i de Torcuato Tasso. However, she developed an interest in music and began the study of piano with Juan Bautista Pujol. She married Miquel Petit, a doctor who died soon afterward, and also lost her daughter at a young age.
After 1900 Freixas published collections of Catalan songs and nursery rhymes, and helped foster musical education for school children in Barcelona. She died in Barcelona in 1926.

Works

Freixas composed for voice and instruments and was known for children's songs. Selected compositions include:
  • La font del romaní for voice and piano
  • L'ametller, for voice and piano
  • La barca, for voice and piano
  • La son soneta, for voice and piano
  • Primaveral, for voice and piano
  • L'ombra de Natzaret, for voice and piano
  • Dolorosa, for voice and piano '
  • Lo filador d'or, for voice and piano
  • Ai, l'esperança, for voice and piano
A collection of her children's songs in Spanish was published in 1927 titled Cancons D'Infants.

Discography

Compositores catalanes. Generació modernista. Maria Teresa Garrigosa and Heidrun Bergander. La mà de guido. Dip.leg. B-45116-2008. Contains songs by Narcisa Freixas, Carmen Karr, Isabel [Güell i López], and Luisa Casagemas.
  • CD "Narcisa Freixas Piano integral". Ester Vela.La mà de guido. LMG 2161. Dip.leg. B-23421-2019.