las Gracias y los Héroes

inglés translation: Graces and Heroes

14:49 Oct 28, 2019
Traducciones de español a inglés [PRO]
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Término o frase en español: las Gracias y los Héroes
This is from a play about the composer Schumann's wife. The character is reading a letter:

lee) “Ha llegado el elegido cuya cuna parecen haber velado las Gracias y los Héroes. Su nombre es Johannes Brahms y viene de Hamburgo… Desde el instante en que se sienta ante el piano nos arrastra a regiones maravillosas, haciéndonos entrar con él en un mundo ideal. Brahms es el compositor que Alemania estaba esperando.”

The Graces and the Heroes seems sort of literal...

Maybe just the gods?
Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 05:16
Traducción al inglés:Graces and Heroes
Explicación:
The three Graces were only minor deities but held sway over beauty, creativity, fertility and the arts. I'd just translate it literally. In fact, I found what appears to be the exact same sentence in a link online:

Brahms and His World - Page 103 - Google Books Result
https://books.google.es › books
Walter Frisch - 1990 - ‎Biography & Autobiography
And such a one IMS appeared; a young man over whose cradle Graces and Heroes have stood watch. His name is Johannes Brahms, ...

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NB: Literal translations are not always a bad thing IMHO. You just need to exercise some discretion.
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Graces and Heroes


Explicación:
The three Graces were only minor deities but held sway over beauty, creativity, fertility and the arts. I'd just translate it literally. In fact, I found what appears to be the exact same sentence in a link online:

Brahms and His World - Page 103 - Google Books Result
https://books.google.es › books
Walter Frisch - 1990 - ‎Biography & Autobiography
And such a one IMS appeared; a young man over whose cradle Graces and Heroes have stood watch. His name is Johannes Brahms, ...

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Note added at 14 mins (2019-10-28 15:04:16 GMT)
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NB: Literal translations are not always a bad thing IMHO. You just need to exercise some discretion.

Ejemplos de uso:
  • ... like Athena from the head of Zeus; a young man over whose cradle graces and heroes have stood watch
  • Robert Schumann, who himself writes about Johannes: "He came to this elect, in whose cradle the graces and heroes seem to have been watching.

    Referencia: http://arts-scene.be/en/asd-artistes-programmes-Fanny-Azzuro...
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Reference information:
Exhibits at the Irving S. Gilmore Music ... - Yale University Library
https://www.library.yale.edu › exhibits › schumann › neue_zeitschrift
In the fall of 1853 he visited Robert and Clara Schumann in Düsseldorf, following a recommendation by Joseph ... And he has come; a young man over whose cradle **Graces and Heroes** have stood watch. His name is Johannes Brahms…

It is what it is, Wendy.

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Piano Works - Page ix - Google Books Result
https://books.google.com.jm › books
Robert Schumann, ‎Joseph Banowetz - 2002 - ‎Music
Finally, after Schumann took the matter to court, Wieck disowned his daughter and publicly ... Clara wrote in her diary: Now begins a new existence, a beautiful life, a life wrapped up in him ... And such a one has come, a young man over whose cradle Graces and Heroes have stood guard. His name is Johannes Brahms.
BRAHMS, J.: 51 Exercises, WoO 6 (Biret) - Naxos Records
https://www.naxos.com › mainsite › blurbs_reviews
In 1853 Schumann contributed a famous last essay to the Leipzig Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. ... whose cradle Graces and Heroes have stood watch": "Johannes Brahms is ... One could meet Johannes Brahms any day on the Ringstrasse, a heavy, ... training and about technique in general much more than my mother [Clara] ...

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