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O placido il mare Lusinghi la sponda, O porti con l'onda Terrore e spavento: È colpa del vento, Sua colpa non è. S'io vo' con la sorte cangiando sembianza, virtù l'incostanza diventa per me.
N. Vaccaj sets stanza 1
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Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, written 1726, appears in Siroe, re di Persia [author's text not yet checked 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 Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "O placido il mare", HWV 24 (1728), first performed 1728, from opera Siroe, re di Persia [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Giovanni Adolfo Hasse (1699 - 1783), "O placido il mare" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hermann Friedrich Raupach (1728 - 1778), "O placido il mare", 1760, first performed 1760 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Domenico Sarri (1678 - 1740), "O placido il mare", 1727, first performed 1727 [ strings, soprano voice, and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Nicola Vaccaj (1790 - 1848), "L'altro modo", stanza 1, from Metodo pratico di Canto Italiano, no. 20 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Alberto Pedrotti , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 34
Whether the sea caresses the grateful shore in peace, or mayhap carries with the waves terror and fear, it is the wind's fault, not that of the sea. If I want to change appearances as the whims of fate direct, on my behalf, virtue shall transform into disloyalty.
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Translations of title(s):
"O placido il mare" = "Whether the sea peacefully caresses"
"L'altro modo" = "The other mode"
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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, written 1726, appears in Siroe, re di Persia
This text was added to the website: 2018-05-16
Line count: 10
Word count: 48