Palmira Jaquetti i Isant (1895–1963) was a Catalan folklorist, poet, businesswoman, composer, musicologist, ethnologist and writer.

Biography

Jaquetti was born in 1895 in

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. After completing her Bachelor of Arts, she taught music and French literature at a high school. Her volume of poetry, ''La estrella dentro del hogar'' (The Star Within the Home) (1938), written during the

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reflected a marked sensitivity and musical stylization. She also published song booklets Between 1925 and 1940, she carried out missions to collect popular songs for the ''Obra del Cançoner Popular de Catalunya'' (Work of the popular songbook of Catalonia). Jaquetti was one of the most important collectors of these songs worldwide. The sheer number of songs collected in her field work with d'Aoust, María Carbó Soler and Mercè Porta Pino is considered to be a pillar in the field. Jaquetti continued with this worke on her own even after the project was disbanded during the Civil War. In the postwar period, she continued her occupation as a French teacher until the traffic accident in which she died in 1963 in

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Death and legacy

In 1927, she married the Belgian painter, Enrique Daoust, but the marriage ended in 1934. Her work is documented in a collection at the

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Selected works

* ''Obra del Cançoner Popular de Catalunya, materials volum VII. Memòries de missions de recerca per Plamira Jaquetti, Baltasar Samper, Ramón Morey, Enric d’Aoust. A cura de Josep Massot i Muntaner'' (1937) * ''Cançons de caramelles per a cor d’homes, quartet vocal o cor mixte a dues, tres o quatre veus. Edició'' (1953) * ''Mis canciones navideñas Edició'' (1943) * ''Selección de canciones navideñas originales y populares'' (1954–55) * ''Trenta cançons nadalenques per a cant i piano'' (1952) * ''Poema de Santa Llúcia Edició'' (1961)

References

External links

Colección Palmira Jaquetti de la Biblioteca de Catalunya
(in Catalan)

(in Catalan) 1895 births 1963 deaths Women writers from Catalonia Composers from Catalonia Writers from Barcelona 20th-century Spanish musicians 20th-century Spanish poets 20th-century Spanish businesspeople Spanish musicologists Spanish women musicologists Spanish ethnomusicologists Women ethnomusicologists Spanish women poets 20th-century musicologists 20th-century women musicians 20th-century Spanish women writers Spanish women anthropologists Spanish folklorists Spanish women folklorists {{ethnomusicologist-stub