Carme Karr i Alfonsetti (Spanish, Carmen Karr; Barcelona, 16 March 1865 – 29 December 1943) was a Spanish

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, journalist, writer, musicologist and song-composer. Karr was one of the most ardent Catalan feminists of the early 20th century, together with Dolors Montserdà with whom she collaborated. Her feminist philosophy, which promoted giving women the necessary tools for a profession, as well as equal rights, was frequently a subject in the journal ''Feminal,'' which she edited from 1907 to 1917. She frequently signed articles with the pseudonym Joana Romeu. She also wrote for ''Diario de Barcelona'', ''La Veu de Catalunya'', ''Or y Grana,''(1906-1907, where she promoted Catalan solidarity), ''Ofrena'' (1916–17), ''La Mainada'' (1922-23), ''La Actualidad'', ''Día Gráfico'' and ''Las Provincias'' of Valencia, where she sometimes used the pseudonym Xènia in reference to the name Xènius used by

Eugeni d'Ors Eugenio d'Ors i Rovira (; Barcelona, 28 September 1882 – Vilanova i la Geltrú, 25 September 1954) was a spanish people, Spanish writer, essayist, Journalism, journalist, Philosophy, philosopher and Art criticism, art critic. He wrote in both C ...

, with whom she argued in ''Joventut''.

Biography

Carme Karr's father was a French engineer and diplomat in Catalunya and her mother, who was Italian, died when Karr was an infant. She was the niece of the French novelist

Alphonse Karr Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (24 November 1808 – 29 September 1890) was a French critic, journalist, and novelist. Life Karr was born in Paris to German pianist and composer Henri Karr (1784–1842), and after being educated at the C ...

. She was raised between Barcelona and Perpignan at schools run by the Dominican order in Barcelona and Figueres. She married Josep Maria de Lasarte i de Janer in 1890 and they had four children. She is buried in the Montjuïc Cemetery in Barcelona. Though born in a foreign family, Karr was fully integrated in Catalan cultural life. She worked as a journalist, beginning with the magazine ''L’Avenç'' and later in ''Joventut''. Using the pseudonym Xènia she began a literary argument with Eugeni d’Ors, who used the pseudonym Xènius in ''La Veu de Catalunya. S''he wrote articles in Spanish and Catalan under her own name in ''Diario de Barcelona'', ''El Día Gràfico'' and in ''Las Provincias''.

Discography

* ''Compositores catalanes. Generació modernista'' (CD). Maria Teresa Garrigosa (soprano) and Heidrun Bergander (piano). La mà de guido. Dip.leg. B-45116-2008. Contains songs by

Narcisa Freixas Narcisa Freixas i Cruells (13 December 1859 – 20 December 1926) 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 Urge ...

, Carmen Karr, Isabel Güell i López, and Luisa Casagemas.

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