by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936)
Meditación primera y última
Language: Spanish (Español)
Available translation(s): ENG
El Tiempo tiene color de noche. De una noche quieta. Sobre lunas enormes la Eternidad está fija en las doce. Y el Tiempo se ha dormido para siempre en su torre. Nos engañan todos los relojes. El Tiempo tiene ya horizontes.
Authorship
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by Stanley Grill (b. 1953), "Meditación primera (y última)", copyright © 2018 [mezzo-soprano, cello and piano], from La selva de los relojes, no. 6, confirmed with an online score [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928 - 2016), "Meditación primera y última" [mixed chorus] [ sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Erste und letzte Betrachtung", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Bertram Kottmann
This text was added to the website: 2018-03-29
Line count: 12
Word count: 41