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Tramontata è la luna

Set by Goffredo Petrassi (1904 - 2003), "Tramontata è la luna", 1942, from Due liriche di Saffo, no. 1 [Sung Text]

Note: this setting is made up of several separate texts.


Tramontata è la luna
E le Plejadi a mezzo della notte;
Anche giovinezza già dilegua,
E ormai nel mio letto resto sola.

Text Authorship:

  • by Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 - 1968) [an adaptation]

Based on:

  • a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), no title, appears in Fragments, no. 168B
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Scuote l'anima mia Eros
Come vento sul monte
che irrompe entro le querce

Text Authorship:

  • by Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 - 1968), no title

Based on:

  • a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), no title, appears in Fragments, no. 47
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E scioglie le membra e le agita,
Dolce amaro indomabile serpente.

Text Authorship:

  • by Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 - 1968), no title

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  • a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), no title, appears in Fragments, no. 130
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Ma a me non ape, non miele

Text Authorship:

  • by Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 - 1968), no title

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E soffro e desidero.

Text Authorship:

  • by Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 - 1968), no title

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  • a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)
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Author(s): Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 - 1968)
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