Memento | Quand je mourrai

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by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Memento

Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Cuando yo me muera,
enterradme con mi guitarra
bajo la arena.

Cuando yo me muera,
entre los naranjos
y la hierbabuena.

Cuando yo me muera,
enterradme si queréis
en una veleta.

¡Cuando yo me muera!

Text Authorship:

by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "Memento", appears in Poema del Cante Jondo, in Viñetas flamencas , first published 1921 [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 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), "Memento", from Romancero Gitano, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Enrique Beck (1904 - 1974) , copyright © ; composed by Hermann Reutter.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Richard Gard) , "Mememto", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Memento", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Ivo Zandhuis

This text was added to the website: 2005-01-11
Line count: 10
Word count: 35

Memento

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

Quand je mourrai,
enterre-moi avec ma guitare
dans le sable.

Quand je mourrai,
entre les orangers
et la menthe.

Quand je mourrai,
enterre-moi, si tu veux,
dans une girouette.

Quand je mourrai !

Text Authorship:

Translation from Spanish (Español) to French (Français) copyright © 2016 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), "Memento", appears in Poema del Cante Jondo, in Viñetas flamencas , first published 1921
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This text was added to the website: 2016-01-09
Line count: 10
Word count: 32