by António Machado (1875 - 1939)
Por un ventanal
Language: Spanish (Español)
Por un ventanal, entró la lechuza en la catedral. San Cristobalón la quiso espantar, al ver que bebía del velón de aceite de Santa María. La Virgen habló: Déjala que beba, San Cristobalón.
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Confirmed with Antonio Machado, Nuevas canciones, Madrid : Editorial Mundo latino, 1924
Text Authorship:
- by António Machado (1875 - 1939), no title, appears in Nuevas canciones, in Apuntes, in 1. Tierra de olivar, no. 3 [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 María José Cordero (b. 1953), "Por un ventanal" [ soprano and piano ], from Microcosmos, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
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