O Brazil Independence Anthem was written by journalist and politician Evaristo da Veiga (1799-1837) in August 1822.
His poetry initially received the title of "Anthem Constitutional Brasiliense", being set to music by the conductor Marcos Antônio da Fonseca Portugal (1760-1830).
Lyrics of the Independence Anthem
You can, from the Motherland, children,
See glad the kind mother;
Freedom has already dawned
On the horizon of Brazil.
Brave Brazilian people!
Far go... servile fear:
Or get the homeland free
Or die for Brazil.
The fetters that forged us
From the cunning treachery...
There was a more powerful hand:
Brazil mocked them.
Brave Brazilian people!
Far go... servile fear:
Or get the homeland free
Or die for Brazil.
Fear not ungodly phalanxes,
Who have a hostile face;
your breasts, your arms
They are walls of Brazil.
Brave Brazilian people!
Far go... servile fear:
Or get the homeland free
Or die for Brazil.
Congratulations, O Brazilian,
Now, with youthful grace,
from the universe among nations
The one in Brazil shines.
Brave Brazilian people!
Far go... servile fear:
Or get the homeland free
Or die for Brazil.
Independence Anthem Video
See too: Independence of Brazil
History of the Independence Anthem
Emperor D. Pedro I (1798-1834) had musical training and was a student of the masters Father José Maurício Nunes Garcia (1767-1830), Marcos Portugal and Sigismund Neukomm (1778-1858).
He played clarinet, bassoon and cello. He performed an opening, performed at the Italian Theater in Paris, in 1832, as well as religious works as a Creed it is a Te Deum.
he composed the Hymn of the Letter, later adopted as the Portuguese National Anthem until 1910, when there was a coup that deposed the monarchy in Portugal.
In 1824, he set to music the poem by Evaristo da Veiga, replacing the old melody of Marcos Portugal and officially creating the Anthem of the Independence of Brazil.
With the Proclamation of the Republic (1889) the anthem was no longer performed in the country. In 1922, with the centenary of Independence, it was played again, but with the original music of conductor Marcos Portugal.
Only during the presidency of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) the minister of education Gustavo Capanema appointed a commission, which included conductor Heitor Villa-Lobos, to definitively re-establish the composed melody for D. Peter I.
See too: Independence Day: September 7th
