This hino can then be considered a patriotic march, that later was used as the Portuguese anthem for the Republic and that we have until today. Before this anthem, the national song was considered to be the Hino da Carta, but was then replaced by A Portuguesa. The composer of A Portuguesa was Alfredo Keil and the lyrics were written by Henrique Lopes Mendonça.Īlthough created around 1890, as we saw, the song was not considered the Portuguese national song up until 1911, after the Portuguese Republic had been proclaimed. As discussed above, this was created in the context of the British Ultimatum to Portugal and it embodies the feelings that most influential Portuguese personalities had at the time. The name of the Portuguese anthem is A Portuguesa. If you want to hear me singing the Portuguese national anthem you can check out the following YouTube video 🙂 Maybe by knowing this, the lyrics will make more sense when you hear them. So, in this context of aroused nationalism, the Portuguese anthem was created. In fact, this was considered as a political outrage by politicians and historians in Portugal, as England and Portugal had been allies for ages prior to this. When this happened, the Portuguese Republicans were not happy and they blamed the Portuguese Government for it, making it fall. England being the strongest country of the two at the time, didn’t leave much room for negotiation, and Portugal ended up retreating and giving the power to England. This had to do with economic interests (of course!) that were overlapping.
NATIONAL ANTHEM LYRICS FREE
This anthem was put together after England gave Portugal an Ultimatum, saying that either the Portuguese would retreat from Africa (and leave the coast free to the British) or measures would be taken that would leave the Portuguese in a bad position. The history behind Portugal’s National Anthem Nevertheless, I do like our national song and in this post I would like to tell you a little bit about it and how it came to be. The Portuguese National Anthem is, in my opinion, a musically beautiful anthem with somehow “harsh” lyrics.
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