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The Romancero gitano (often translated into English as Gypsy Ballads) is a poetry collection by Spanish writer Federico García Lorca.First published in 1928, it is composed of eighteen romances with subjects like the night, death, the sky, and the moon.
Federico García Lorca was one of the select circle of friends of the Ríos family. He dedicated the poem Romance sonámbulo to Fernando and Gloria, [5] and was the one who introduced their daughters, Laura de los Ríos and Isabel García Lorca. The friendship between the latter was very intense and lasting.
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca [a] [b] (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group consisting mostly of poets who introduced the tenets of European movements (such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) into Spanish ...
Author Language Year Work Description Francis Poulenc (instrumental) (program notes in French)1943 Violin Sonata (French: Sonate pour violon et piano) : Dedicated to Lorca's memory, and programmatically quoting (in French) the first line of his poem "The Six Strings" (Spanish: Las Seis Cuerdas): "The guitar makes dreams cry" [b] at the start of the second movement, Intermezzo.
The Sleepwalker (Spanish: Sonámbulo) is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Theodore Ushev and released in 2015. [2] Inspired by Federico García Lorca's poem "Romance Sonámbulo", the film depicts the dreams of a woman through the interplay of abstract shapes and patterns.
Romance Anónimo" (Anonymous Romance) is a piece for guitar, ... (circa 1934), and soon after performed it between acts at the Teatro Guerra, in Lorca, Spain. Some ...
The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife (La zapatera prodigiosa), also known as The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife and The Shoemaker's Prosperous Wife, is a play by the twentieth-century Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. [1] [2] It was written between 1926 and 1930, and first performed in 1930.
A romancero is a collection of Spanish romances, a type of folk ballad (sung narrative). The romancero is the entire corpus of such ballads. As a distinct body of literature they borrow themes such as war, honour, aristocracy and heroism from epic poetry, especially the medieval cantar de gesta and chivalric romance, and they often have a pretense of historicity.