For Soprano, Flute, Violin, Cello, Guitar, Vibraphone and Piano. This chamber cantata for high voice and six instruments was composed (along with works by Harold Gramatges, Eduardo Angulo and Alvarez y Rivalera) fortheanniversary of the birth of José Martí (1853-1895), the great Cuban poet and revolutionary.
The text was only relatively recently discovered, almost a century after it was written, by Cintio VitierandPina García Marruz, members of the Cuban literary group Origene.