Background
She was born in Barcelona and studied composition with Francesc de Paula Sánchez i Gavagnach and violin with Agustí Torelló.
She was born in Barcelona and studied composition with Francesc de Paula Sánchez i Gavagnach and violin with Agustí Torelló.
After 1894) was a Catalan violinist, singer and composer. She began composing at an early age and made her debut as a composer in 1893 with a symphonic poem. However, an anarchist attack with a bomb interrupted the opera season and the theatre was closed for months.
So, the opera was not performed.
As a compensation for the author, several fragments were performed before the Spanish royal family in Madrid in 1894. After, it was forgotten and never performed nor recorded.
Afterward Casagemas sang her own compositions at the salon of novelist Emilia Pardo Bazán, and he introduced her to musical and literary society.