by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836 - 1870)
Olas gigantes que os rompéis bramando
Language: Spanish (Español)
Olas gigantes que os rompéis bramando En las playas desiertas y remotas, Envuelto entre las sábanas de espuma, ¡Llevadme con vosotras! Ráfagas de huracán, que arrebatáis Del alto bosque las marchitas hojas, Arrastrando en el ciego torbellino, ¡Llevadme con vosotras! Nubes de tempestad que rompe el rayo Y en fuego ornáis las desprendidas orlas, Arrebatado entre la niebla oscura, ¡Llevadme con vosotras! Llevadme, por piedad, adonde el vértigo Con la razón me arranque la memoria. ¡Por piedad! ... ¡Tengo miedo de quedarme Con mi dolor a solas, con mi dolor a solas!
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Text Authorship:
- by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836 - 1870), no title, appears in Rimas, no. 52 [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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Olas gigantes", 2001 [ tenor and piano ], from Las Canciones de Bécquer, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946), "Olas gigantes", 1899, published 1980 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Frederic Mompou i Dencausse (1893 - 1987), "Olas gigantes", from Becquerianas, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Joaquín Turina (1882 - 1949), "Olas gigantes", op. 81 no. 1 (1933), published 1935 [ soprano and piano ], from Tres poemas, no. 1, Madrid : UME [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Claycomb) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Vagues géantes", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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