Bertsolaritza
Videos
Bertsolaritza Basque pronunciation: or bertsolarism is the art of singing improvised songs in Basque according to various melodies and rhyming patterns. Bertsos can be composed at a variety of occasio
The bertsolari Mattin Treku composing a bertso in Sare in 1960
A title page of Bertsolariya, a bertso paper that appeared between 1931 and 1932
Bertsolaris Larralde and Hiriart performing in Sara, Labourd (1936)
Popular bertsolaris of the mid-1970s
Txirrita
Videos
Jose Manuel Lujanbio Retegi, born on Hernani in 1860 and died in Altza in 1936, was a Basque composer of verse, known as bertsolaris.
Bertsolaritza
…studied" bertsolaris who were aware of written Basque literature, and the eskolatu gabeak, the "unstudied" bertsolariak who were not as literate, e. g. Txirrita. The former, e. g. Basarri, were encouraged and advocated for by the Basque nationalist theoretician Aitzol, eventually tortured and killed by Spanish…
Txirrita (on the left) and Saiburu