Plus près de moi je te sens

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by Ramòn Maria de las Mercedes de Campoamor y Campoosorio (1817 - 1901)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Más cerca de mí te siento

Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: ENG FRE GER

[Más]¹ cerca de mí te siento
Cuanto más huyo de tí,
Pues tu imágen es en mí
Sombra de mi pensamiento.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• J. Turina

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Confirmed with Obras Escogidas de D. Ramon de Campoamor (de la Academia Española). Tomo I. Ternezas y Flores. -- Sonetos. -- Fábulas. -- Cantares. -- Doloras, Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, 1885, page 144.

Note: modern spelling would require changing "cuanto" to "cuando"

¹ Turina: "¡Ay! Más"

Text Authorship:

by Ramòn Maria de las Mercedes de Campoamor y Campoosorio (1817 - 1901), no title, appears in Cantares, in Amorosos, no. 8 [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 Julio Osma (d. 1938), "Màs cerca de mí te siento", from Cantares de mi tierra, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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by Joaquín Turina (1882 - 1949), "Cantares", op. 19 no. 3 (1917), published 1923 [ soprano and piano or orchestra ], from Poema en forma de canciones, no. 3, Madrid: UME

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ENG English (Emily Ezust) , copyright © 2015
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Plus près de moi je te sens

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

Plus près de moi je te sens
Quand je fuis loin de toi,
Car ton image est en moi,
Ombre de mes pensées.

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Translation of title "Cantares" = "Chants"

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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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a text in Spanish (Español) by Ramòn Maria de las Mercedes de Campoamor y Campoosorio (1817 - 1901), no title, appears in Cantares, in Amorosos, no. 8
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This text was added to the website: 2017-10-06
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Word count: 23