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Montserrat Campmany i Cortés (Barcelona, 7 March 1901 - Buenos Aires, 31 May 1995) was a pianist, singer, pedagogue andcatalan composer.

Biography
Montserrat Campmany was born in street Casp in Barcelona, the 7th of march, 1901, and was the daughter of Francesc Campmany i Capdevila and Elvira Cortés, both from Barcelona. Montserrat Cortés' family moved to Buenos Aires in 1909, when she was still a child. She studied with Guido Cappocci (singing), Julián Aguirre (piano), Alberto Schiuma (cello) and Constantino Gaitó (composition). In 1917, Buenos Aires' "Orfeó català" organised a composition contest, where Montserrat Campmany won a prize with one of her pieces for choir, titled Raïms i espigues. She was the first woman ever to be part of the Composer's Group inside the Musicology Institute directed by Carlos Vega. The majority of her pieces are written for voice, of which we can distinguish Hilando (1920) and Poemas de Cuyo (1925). She also wrote some songs containing Rubén Darío's verses, in which she uses Inca's musical scale with very rich and varied modifications.

At the beginning of 1929 she turns back to Barcelona, where Orquestra Pau Casals premiered her pieces Danza india and Poemas de Cuyo', both constructed upon Inca's pentatonic scale (as well as Visión sinfónica and others). In this same city, she continued her studies with teachers Joan Llongueres i Badia, Blanca Selva and Joan Massià. She submits herself to competitive examinations in 1932 and she was teacher at "del Mar School" and at a school in Blanquerna. In 1939 she returns to Argentina, where she will continue composition and the study of Incaic music with Carlos Vega, historian and musicologist. She taught at Normal School nº 1 in Buenos Aires. She was an active member in Argentina's Music Composers Association and in 1949 she entered "Argentina's Authors and Composers Society". As a composer, she wrote chamber music pieces, symphonic pieces and lieder, and her music is highly influenced by native american music but, mainly from 50s onwards, by the twelve-tone technique.

Her sister Maria es doctorà en Filosofia i Lletres (a Buenos Aires el 1927) amb la tesi Las excavaciones de Ampurias. De tornada a Catalunya, el 1930 assistia a Barcelona al seminari de traducció grec-català que feia Carles Riba a la Fundació Bernat Metge. Pianista i escriptora en llengua espanyola, col·laborà en les revistes La Nación, La Razón, El Hogar, Revista de l'Associació Wagneriana i La Revista de Música de Buenos Aires. L'any 1939 tornà a Buenos Aires. Als anys 40, l'editorial José Ballesta publicava a Buenos Aires la seva traducció de Les mil i una nits. A Buenos Aires va continuar la seva tasca de compositora, on morí l'any 1995. Alguna de les seves obres va obtindre èxit internacional, en especial el seu Quartet de corda.

El fons personal de Montserrat Campmany es conserva a la Biblioteca de Catalunya.

Voice compositions

 * L'absence
 * Primavera

Piano compositions

 * Suite Incaica (1940)

Piano and voice compositions

 * Azul (1954), about a poem by Agustín Dentone
 * Canto de amor (1954), about a poem by Agustín Dentone
 * Carita del cielo, lied, about a poem by Agustín Dentone
 * La casita de Tucumán, canción para niños (1952), with verses by Celia Peona
 * Filant, about a poem by Josep Martí i Folguera
 * Firulete: 6 canciones infantiles (1942), with verses by María Rosario Cipriota
 * Jueirío, about a poem by Rafael Jijena Sánchez
 * Poema otoñal (1922), with texts by Rubén Darío
 * Momento: lied, with words by Margarita Abella Caprile
 * Petit rondell, with words by Jeroni Zanné
 * Tres cantos escolares, texts by Jeroni Zanné, translated in a bilingual edition spanish-french (Which include Las calesitas, El pájaro y el gato and El barrilete)
 * Un asra, about a poem by Heinrich Heine

Chamber music

 * Al Sant Marçal de Plata (1942), for choir
 * Concierto para trompeta solista, metales y timbal
 * String Quartet in E major
 * Saxophone quartet (1958)
 * Dansa índia (1929),
 * Día de feria en Tucumán, for voice, flute and harp
 * Saxophone duo
 * Médano, for voice, flute and harp
 * Poemas de Cuyo (1925), for voice, flute and harp


 * Violin quintet in three movements


 * Raïms i espigues (1919), for choir
 * Salve Regina, for choir and organ
 * Siesta, for voice, flute and harp

Symphonic poems

 * La Perí, about Aiguaforts i aigües vessants (1920), by Jeroni Zanné
 * Visión sinfónica (1930)

Others

 * La leyenda de la yerba mate (1941), Comedy


 * La guspira (1931), sardana
 * Tonada (unknown)

Discography and videography

 * Compact disc Panorama de la música argentina 3: Compositores nacidos entre 1887 - 1903 Buenos Aires: Fondo Nacional de las Artes, 2006. Recolect compositions Poemas de Cuyo, Siesta and Médano
 * Video Panorama de la música argentina: Compositores nacidos entre 1887 - 1903 Buenos Aires: Fondo Nacional de las Artes, 1999