Landscape | The afternoon mistakenly

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by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936)

Translation © by Jennifer Capaldo

Paisaje

Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: ENG FRE

La tarde equivocada
se vistió de frío.

Detrás de los cristales,
turbios, todos los niños,
ven convertirse en pájaros
un árbol amarillo.

La tarde está tendida
a lo largo del río.
Y un rubor de manzana
tiembla en los tejadillos.

Text Authorship:

by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "Paisaje", appears in Canciones, in Canciones para niños, first published 1921-4 [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 Suzanne Baron Supervielle (1910 - 2004), "Paisaje", 1940 [ voice and piano ], from Cuatro Canciones de Federico García Lorca, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
by Xavier Montsalvatge (1912 - 2002), "Paisaje", 1953, published 1953 [ voice and piano ], from Canciones para niños, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ernst Widmer (1927 - 1990), "Paisaje", op. 15 no. 2 (1957), first performed 1958 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Letztes, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Jennifer Capaldo) , "Landscape", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Paysage", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-05-03
Line count: 10
Word count: 40

Landscape

Language: English after the Spanish (Español)

The afternoon mistakenly
got dressed in cold.

Behind the misted windows,
all the children
see a yellow tree
turn into birds.

The afternoon is stretched
along the river.
And a red flush of apple
trembles on the rooftops.

Text Authorship:

Translation from Spanish (Español) to English copyright © 2012 by Jennifer Capaldo, (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), "Paisaje", appears in Canciones, in Canciones para niños, first published 1921-4
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This text was added to the website: 2012-08-27
Line count: 10
Word count: 38