Costa Rican National Anthem

The present national anthem of Costa Rica was done 1852. Its music was composed by Manuel Maria Gutierrez, who dedicated the score to the French Gabriel Pierre Lafond. It music was created to receive the delegates of Great Britain and the United States in that year. It has had several letters; the present one was written in a contest in 1903, was summoned to give the hymn, a letter that reflected the idea of being Costa Rican. The contest gained by Jose Maria Zeledón Brenes.

The first letter of the National anthem of Costa Rica was work of the Colombian poet Jose Manuel Lleras released and in 1873. The letter of Lleras, that was beautiful but very long and full of praises for the President of Costa Rica of those days Tomás Gutiérrez Guardia, but soon was forgotten.

In 1879 the Hymn began to singing with other music score more brief, make it by the seminarist Juan Garita y Guillén. Its language was more simple reason why it was changed again. Neither the letter of Lleras nor of Garita it never was adopted officially.

Although the composition of Fernandez Ferraz had great literary beauty, its language was something high to root in the population, in addition of which it did not adapt well to the music of the Hymn and did necessary to do adjustments to him to the original score of the Master Gutiérrez. All it took to the decision to replace it with a new letter, for which a public contest in 1903 took place. The contest was gained by the composition of Jose Maria Zeledón Brenes, presented under the pseudonym of Farmer (Labrador), who with small changes is the present letter of the National anthem of Costa Rica: