Agnès Armengol

Agnès Armengol i Altayó (also known as Agnès Armengol de Badia; pseudonym, Graziella; Sabadell, August 1852 - Sabadell, January 30, 1934) was a Spanish writer, pianist, composer, promoter of women's participation in the Catalanist movement.

[1][2] 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.

[3][4] 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" (Old Rosary) (a collection of the life, customs and traditions of Catalonia) and contributed to resurrecting the "Ball del Ciri" and the "Dance of Castellterçol".