by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936)
Translation by Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892 - 1941)
La guitarra
Language: Spanish (Español)
Empieza el llanto de la guitarra. Se rompen las copas de la madrugada. Empieza el llanto de la guitarra. Es inútil callarla. Es imposible callarla. Llora monótona como llora el agua, como llora el viento sobre la nevada. Es imposible callarla. Llora por cosas lejanas. Arena del Sur caliente que pide camelias blancas. Llora flecha sin blanco, la tarde sin mañana, y el primer pájaro muerto sobre la rama. ¡Oh, guitarra! Corazón malherido por cinco espadas.
Text Authorship:
- by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "La guitarra", appears in Poema del Cante Jondo, in Poema de la siguiriya gitana , no. 2, 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), "La guitarra", from Romancero Gitano, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ramiro Cortés (1933 - 1984), "La guitarra", from Three Spanish Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ferenc Farkas (1905 - 2000), "La guitarra", 1986 [ voice and guitar ], unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ferenc Farkas (1905 - 2000), "La guitarra", 1986 [ voice and 2 guitars ], unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alex Taylor , "La Guitarra", first performed 2020 [ tenor, cello, percussion ], from Poema de La Siguiriya Gitana, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892 - 1941) , "Гитара" ; composed by Aleksandr Borisovich Matyukhin.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Richard Gard) , "The guitar", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "La guitare", 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: 26
Word count: 76
Gitara
Language: Russian (Русский) after the Spanish (Español)
Nachinaetsya Plach gitary', Razbivaetsya Chasha utra. Nachinaetsya Plach gitary'. O, ne zhdi ot neyo Molchan`ya, Ne prosi u neyo Molchan`ya! Gitara plachet, Kak voda po naklonam — plachet, Kak vetra nad snegami — plachet, Ne moli eyo O molchan`i! Tak plachet zakat o rassvete, Tak plachet strela bez celi, Tak pesok raskalyonny'j plachet O proxladnoj krase kamelij, Tak proshhaetsya s zhizn`yu pticza Pod ugrozoj zmeinogo zhala. O, gitara, Bednaya zhertva Pyati provorny'x kinzhalov!
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Text Authorship:
- by Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892 - 1941), "Гитара" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Spanish (Español) by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "La guitarra", appears in Poema del Cante Jondo, in Poema de la siguiriya gitana , no. 2, first published 1921
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Aleksandr Borisovich Matyukhin (b. 1947), "Гитара" [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2021-08-14
Line count: 24
Word count: 73