L'enfant muet | Le garçon cherche sa voix

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by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

El niño busca su voz

Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: ENG FRE

El niño busca su voz.
(La tenía el rey de los grillos.)
En una gota de agua
buscaba su voz el niño.

No la quiero para hablar;
me haré con ella un anillo
que llevará mi silencio
en su dedo pequeñito.

En una gota de agua
buscaba su voz el niño.

(La voz cautiva, a lo lejos,
se ponía un traje de grillo.)

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G. Crumb sets stanzas 1-2

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Text Authorship:

by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "El niño mudo", appears in Canciones, in Trasmundo [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 George Crumb (1929 - 2022), no title, 1970, stanzas 1-2 [ soprano, boy soprano, oboe, mandolin, harp, electric piano, and percussion ], from Ancient Voices of Children, no. 1, New York : Peters [sung text checked 1 time]
by Agustín Fernández (b. 1958), "El niño mudo", 1976 [ low voice and piano ], from El anillo, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Frederic Mompou i Dencausse (1893 - 1987), "El niño mudo " [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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Also set in English, a translation by William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927) , copyright © ; composed by Alvin Brehm.
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Also set in French (Français), a translation by Félix Gattegno (flourished c1941-1946) ; composed by Francis Poulenc.
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 63

L'enfant muet

Language: French (Français) after the Spanish (Español)

Le garçon cherche sa voix
(C'est le roi des grillons qui l'a.)
Dans une goutte d'eau
le garçon cherche sa voix.

Je ne la veux pas pour parler ;
je ferai un anneau avec elle
pour qu'il mette mon silence
sur son petit doigt.

Dans une goutte d'eau
le garçon cherche sa voix.

(La voix captive, au loin,
se met un costume de grillon.)

Text Authorship:

Translation from Spanish (Español) to French (Français) copyright © 2017 by Guy Laffaille, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in Spanish (Español) by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "El niño mudo", appears in Canciones, in Trasmundo
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This text was added to the website: 2017-05-06
Line count: 12
Word count: 63