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[Ne']1 campi e nelle selve Seguivo già le belve, Pascevo il gregge ancor Libero pastorello, Libero cacciator; Ora non son più quello: Perdei la libertà. E quel ch'è peggio, oh Dio, Come se il mio tormento Colpa non sia di lei, Mostrare al mio lamento Clori non vuol pietà.
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Opere di Pietro Metastasio, Volume unico, Trieste, Sezione Letterario-Artistica del Lloyd Austriaco, 1857, pages 554-555.
1 Beethoven: "Nei"Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Cantate, in 2. Il tabacco, in 9. Cantata IX [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), "Nei campi e nelle selve", WoO 99 no. 10 (1801-2) [ SATB quartet with piano ], from Mehrstimmige italienische Gesänge, no. 10, formerly number 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2009, (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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Word count: 50
In Wäldern, auf dem Felde dem Wildbret ich nachstellte, ich nahm mich meiner Herde an, ich bin ein freier Hirte, ein freier Jägersmann. Nun hab ich das verloren, was mich hat frei gemacht. O Gott, und was noch schlimmer, Chloris zeigt keine Gnade so sehr ich ihr auch klage, als hätte dieses Elend sie mir nicht selbst gebracht.
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Translation of title "Nei campi e nelle selve" = "In Wäldern, auf dem Felde"Text Authorship:
- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2020 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Cantate, in 2. Il tabacco, in 9. Cantata IX
This text was added to the website: 2020-02-17
Line count: 12
Word count: 58