Tener amor es morirse. Poetry, Music and Romanticism In El Cancionero Argentino (Buenos Aires, 1837-1838)

Abstract

The aim of this work is to investigate about the emergence of the genre "song" in Buenos Aires during the 1830 decade to inquire the four volumes of the de “El Cancionero Argentino. Colección de poesías adaptadas para el canto”. Published by Antonio Wilde between 1837 and 1838, the songbooks collected two hundred songs that circulated in Buenos Aires and were the product of the leading intellectuals and musicians and relatives belonging to the so-called "young romantic generation".

Keywords

• canción
• poesía y música
• romanticismo
• esteban echeverría
• juan pedro esnaola
• joven generación romántica