Erste und letzte Betrachtung | Die Zeit / trägt die Farbe der Nacht

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by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

El Tiempo/ tiene color de noche

Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: 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.

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Text Authorship:

by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936) [author's text not yet checked 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 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 Monica Houghton , "Meditación Primera", 2017, first performed 2024 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from De la Noche, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
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 page: Bertram Kottmann

This text was added to the website: 2018-03-29
Line count: 12
Word count: 41

Erste und letzte Betrachtung

Language: English after the Spanish (Español)

Die Zeit 
trägt die Farbe der Nacht -
einer stillen Nacht.
Über gewaltigen Monden
ist der Ewigkeit
die Zwölf bestimmt.
Und für immer ist die Zeit
in ihrem Turme eingeschlafen.
Uns täuschen
alle Uhren.
Die Zeit ist bereits
an ihren Horizonten.

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a text in Spanish (Español) by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936)
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This text was added to the website: 2018-03-29
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Word count: 40