De profundis | Les cent amoureux

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by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

De profundis

Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: ENG FRE GER

Los cien enamorados
duermen para siempre
bajo la tierra seca.
Andalucía tiene 
largos caminos rojos.
Córdoba, olivos verdes
donde poner cien cruces,
que los recuerden. 
Los cien enamorados
duermen para siempre.

Text Authorship:

by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "De profundis", appears in Poema del Cante Jondo, in Gráfico de la Petenera , 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 Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "De profundis", op. 135 no. 1, from Symphony no. 14, no. 1, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Enrique Beck (1904 - 1974) , copyright © ; composed by Hermann Reutter.
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Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Yury Nikolaevich (Nasonovich) Tynyanov (1894 - 1943) , "De profundis" ; composed by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Salvador Pila) , "De Profundis", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "De profundis", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "De profundis - Aus der Tiefe", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: John Versmoren , Bertram Kottmann

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 10
Word count: 31

De profundis

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

Les cent amoureux
dorment pour toujours
sous la terre sèche.
L'Andalousie a
des longs chemins rouges.
Cordou, des oliviers verts
Où placer cent croix,
en leur mémoire.
Les cent amoureux
dorment pour toujours.

Text Authorship:

Translation from Spanish (Español) to French (Français) copyright © 2011 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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Based on:

a text in Spanish (Español) by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "De profundis", appears in Poema del Cante Jondo, in Gráfico de la Petenera , first published 1921
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This text was added to the website: 2011-05-24
Line count: 10
Word count: 33