Farewell to the Viennese | I leave you, beloved banks

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Garrett Medlock

Addio ai Viennesi

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Da voi parto, amate sponde,
Ma da voi non parte il cor.
Troppo a me foste seconde,
Troppo prodighe d'amor.
Ah! dov'è quell'alma ingrata
Che d'un popolo sì altero,
Così nobile e sincero
Obbliar possa il favor?

Quando l'aure intorno
Sussurar dolci udirete,
O d'amor la notte e il giorno
L'usignuolo favellar,
Dite pur: questo è Rossini
Che dispiega i suoi desiri,
[D'un crescendo di sospiri
Fa sull'Istro risuonar.]¹

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¹ Some sources list this ending: "E crescendo di sospiri / Fa la Senna risuonar."

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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 Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868), "Addio ai Viennesi", subtitle: "(Addio di Rossini)", 1822?, published 1822. [voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Farewell to the Viennese", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-10-11
Line count: 16
Word count: 70

Farewell to the Viennese

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

I leave you, beloved banks,
But my heart does not leave you,
You were so much a second home to me,
So generous in love.
Ah! where is that ungrateful soul
Who of people so fine,
So noble and sincere,
Could forget the support?

When breezes around you
Whispering sweetly you hear,
Or [when] of love night and day
The nightingale sings,
Then say: this is Rossini
Who lays out his desires,
[That a surge of sighs
On the Istrian shore resounds.]¹

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¹ "And a surge of sighs / Makes the Seine resound."

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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2018-10-11
Line count: 16
Word count: 83