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Echi di reverenza

Cantata by Giovanni Legrenzi (1625 - 1690)

Che fiero costume
 (Sung text for setting by G. Legrenzi)
 Matches base text

Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Che fiero costume
D'aligero nume,
Che a forza di pene si faccia adorar!
E pur nell' ardore
Il dio traditore
Un vago sembiante mi fe' idolatrar.

Che crudo destino
Che un cieco bambino
Con bocca di latte si faccia stimar!
Ma questo tiranno
Con barbaro inganno,
Entrando per gli occhi, mi fe' sospirar!

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):

Set by Giovanni Legrenzi (1625 - 1690), op. 14, published 1678
Note (courtesy Laura Prichard): This is one movement of a three-part cantata, first published in Echi di reverenza, op. 14 (Bologna, 1678). The other movements are recitative and aria. Lengrenzi re-used this melody in his 1680 opera Eteocle e Polinice with the text “Festeggia mio core."

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 53
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