Catalan folk song, which emerged around 1640 as a historical romance referred to the War of the Reapers. |
Popularly preserved with many melodic and textual variants over the centuries, acquired character went Catalan national anthem from the Renaissance. Both texts have been disseminated history (published already in 1882 in Milan and his Fontanals Romancerillo Catalan-and-music in the first edition in 1892 by Francesc Alió in its collection of Catalan folk songs) and the current Emili Guanyavents, the political and vindictive, victor in a contest organized for this purpose by the Catalanism Union in 1899 and provoked a passionate public debate and journalism. In 1937 the text of Guanyavents figures as "Catalan national anthem" (not even unify the three choruses in the ultimate "good blow with the sickle, defenders of the earth!") In the first songs Revolutionary International (CRI) issued by the same Government. During the Franco regime were totally banned and persecuted in the interpretation and dissemination. As of 1976, with the advent of democracy, the song became again the Catalan national anthem, although it was not until 1993 that the Parliament of Catalonia declared the official anthem. It has been recorded by different entities discogràficament choirs (Choral Enric Morera, St. George Coral, Coral Carmina, etc.). Among the many arrangements of collective Catalan national anthem, and perhaps most widely known are the Francesc Pujol for couplet, the John Lamote Grignon, for band, choir and harmonization of Josep Viader.
