Dos palabras
by Ivo Antognini
4-Part - Sheet Music

Item Number: 19906923
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SKU: AN.AMP-0924

Composed by Ivo Antognini. Octavo. Alliance Music Publications #AMP 0924. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0924).

Antognini.

Alfonsina Storni (1892 - 1938) was born in Ponte Capriasca, a small village in Ticino (Switzerland) which is 15 km from where I live. When she was four, her family moved to Argentina where she soon began writing poems.


Alfonsina lived an unconventional and adventurous life punctuated by difficulties and misfortunes. She was a teacher, actress, journalist, writer and single mother who faced the many challenges and prejudices of twentieth-century Buenos Aires.


In the summer of 1935, she found out that she had breast cancer and was treated with surgery, but the disease continued to spread. In 1938, in Mar del Plata, she committed suicide by walking into the ocean and drowning.


Dos Palabras is an extraordinary love poem that I've translated into music, trying to preserve all the sensuality, the passion and the freshness which is evident in the poem.