Hear the breeze in flight | Hear the breeze in flight

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

Translation © by Uri Liebrecht

Odi l'aura che dolce sospira

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG FRE PER

Venere:
 Odi l'aura che dolce sospira;
 Mentre fugge scutendo le fronde,
 Se l'intendi, ti parla d'amor.

Pallade:
 Senti l'onda che rauca s'aggira;
 Mentre geme radendo le sponde,
 Se l'intendi, si lagna d'amor.

(a due):
 Quell'affetto chi sente nel petto,
 Sa per prova se nuoce, se giova,
 Se diletto produce o dolor!

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• L. Beethoven

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Confirmed with Tutte le opere di Pietro Metastasio, Firenze, Tipografia Borghi e compagni 1832, page 622.

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in La pace fra la virtù e la bellezza [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), "Odi l'aura", op. 82 (Vier Arietten und ein Duett) no. 5, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 51

Hear the breeze in flight

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Venere:
 Hear the breeze in flight
 Sigh sweetly through the stirring fronds;
 Know, it speaks to you of love.

Pallade:
 Hear the wave caress the shore,
 Gruffly moaning as it ebbs;
 Know, it complains to you of love.

Both:
 This sensation in your heart, known from what has come before
 As bringing hurt or bringing joy, 
 makes for pain or sheer delight.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in La pace fra la virtù e la bellezza
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-28
Line count: 12
Word count: 62