A great warhorse, close to its lodgings | A great warhorse, close to its lodgings

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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Quel destrier che all’albergo è vicino

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Quel destrier che all’albergo è vicino
più veloce s’affretta nel corso;
non l’arresta l’angustia del morso,
non la voce che legge gli dà.
 
Tal quest’alma che piena è di speme
nulla teme, consiglio non sente;
e si forma una gioia presente
del pensiero che lieta saprà.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• A. Caldara • F. Gassmann • G. Pergolesi • A. Vivaldi

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Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Olimpiade [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 Antonio Caldara (1670 - 1736), "Quel destrier, che all'albergo è vicino", 1733, first performed 1733, from opera L'Olimpiade [sung text checked 1 time]
by Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729 - 1774), "Quel destrier che all'albergo è vicino", 1764, first performed 1764 [ 2 trumpets, 2 oboes, strings, and soprano voice ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 - 1736), no title, 1735, first performed 1735 [ 2 trumpets, 2 horns, 2 oboes, strings, soprano voice ], from opera L'Olimpiade, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741), "Quel destrier che all’albergo è vicino", RV 725, from opera L'Olimpiade, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "A great warhorse, close to its lodgings", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2018-04-30
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Word count: 46

A great warhorse, close to its lodgings

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

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A great warhorse, close to its lodgings,
shall hurry ever faster on its course.
The anguish his bit causes him does not stop him,
nor the voice that gives law to him.

In such a way, this hopeful soul
fears nothing and listens to no advice,
and a certain joy takes shape
at the thought which it will be happy to know.

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This text was added to the website: 2018-09-18
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