by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836 - 1870)
Hoy la tierra y los cielos me sonríen
Language: Spanish (Español)
Hoy la tierra y los cielos me sonríen; Hoy llega al fondo de mi alma el sol; Hoy la he visto... la he visto y me ha mirado... ¡Hoy creo en Dios!
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Confirmed with Gustavo A. Bécquer, Obras de Gustavo A. Bécquer, tomo segundo, Rimas, Madrid: Imprenta de T. Fortanet, 1871, page 268.
Authorship:
- by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836 - 1870), no title, appears in Rimas, no. 17, Madrid, Imprenta de T. Fortanet, first published 1871 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Hoy creo en Dios", 2001 [ tenor and piano ], from Las Canciones de Bécquer, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Frederic Mompou i Dencausse (1893 - 1987), "Hoy la tierra y los cielos me sonríen", from Becquerianas, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Luis Sammartino (1888 - 1973), "Rima XVII", 1911 [ medium voice and piano ], from Rimas de Bécquer, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Jeffrey Tang) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (George Pereli) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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