JAQUETTI I ISANT, Palmira

Palmira Jaquetti i Isant (1895–1963) was a Catalan folklorist, poet, businesswoman, composer, musicologist, ethnologist and writer. Her work is documented in a collection at the National Library of Catalonia. 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. 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 Santa Margarida i els Monjos.