by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
Chi mai di questo core
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Chi mai di questo core Saprà le vie secrete, Se voi non le sapete, [Begli occhi]1 del mio ben? Voi che dal primo istante, Quando divenni amante, Il mio nascosto [amore]2 Mi conosceste in sen.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Poesie del Signor Abbate Pietro Metastasio. Poeta e Bibliotecario Cesareo, Tomo Sesto. Londra, 1774, pages 351-352.
1 Donizetti: "Begl'occhi"2 Donizetti: "foco"
Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Cantate, in 3. Il Trionfo della Gloria, in 14. Il Ritorno [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827), "Chi mai di questo core", WoO 99 no. 7 (1801-2) [ STB chorus a cappella ], from Mehrstimmige italienische Gesänge, no. 7, note: this was formerly number 2 in the set [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Danzi (1763 - 1826), "Chi mai di questo core", op. 40 (12 Canzonette Italiane) no. 3, P 184 no. 3, published 1813 [ voice and piano ], Munich: Falter et Figlio [sung text not yet checked]
The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848), "Ah rammenta o bella Irene"
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- ENG English (Luk Laerenbergh) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2009-12-17
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