by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
Io lo so, che il bel sembiante
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Our translations: ENG
Io lo so, che il bel sembiante Un istante, oh Dio! mirai, E mai più da quell'istante Non lasciai di sospirar. Io lo so; lo sanno queste Valli ombrose, erme foreste Che han da me quel nome amato Imparato a replicar.
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View text with all available footnotesNote: Excerpted from "Il consiglio", Cantata VI.
Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title [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 (Karl) Friedrich Curschmann (1805 - 1841), "Jo lo so", op. 8 (Vier Canzonetten) no. 4, published 1834, Berlin, Westphal [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Daniel Friedrich Rudolph Kuhlau (1786 - 1832), no title, op. 9 no. 3 (c1813), published [1814] [ voice and piano ], from Sei Canzoni, no. 3, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Vincenzo Righini (1756 - 1812), "Io lo so", op. 7 no. 3, from Dodici Ariette, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Johann Christoph Grünbaum)
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website: 2011-06-02
Line count: 8
Word count: 44