by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
Translation Singable translation by Johann Christoph Grünbaum (1785 - 1870)
Per pietà, bell'idol mio
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Per pietà, bell'idol mio, non mi dir ch'io [sono]1 ingrato; infelice e sventurato abbastanza il Ciel mi fa. Se [fedele]2 a te son io, se mi struggo ai tuoi bei lumi, sallo amor, lo sanno i Numi il mio [core]3, il tuo lo sa.
W. Mozart sets stanza 1
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with A Literal Prose Translation of Five Select Pieces from the Works of Tasso, Metastasio and Alfieri, Bd. 1, Artaxerxes, Leghorn, 1826.
1 Curschmann: "son"2 Curschmann: "fedel"
3 Curschmann: "cor"
Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Artaserse, Act I, Scene V [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 Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835), "Per pietà, bell'idol mio", from Sei Ariette, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by ? Brouncker, Miss , "Per pietà bel idol mio", published 1840? [ voice and piano ], London : Willis & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louise, Comtesse de Caumont d'Adde ( flourished 1816 ), as Signora di Caumont d'Ade, "Duetto a due soprani", published 1809? [ 2 sopranos and piano ], from Trois airs & trois duo Italiens, no. 2, Paris : I. Pleyel [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Karl) Friedrich Curschmann (1805 - 1841), "Per pietà bell' idol ", op. 8 (Vier Canzonetten) no. 3, published 1834, Berlin, Westphal [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Danzi (1763 - 1826), "Per pietà, bell'idol mio", op. 40 (12 Canzonette Italiane) no. 8, P 184 no. 8, published 1813 [ voice and piano ], Munich: Falter et Figlio [sung text not yet checked]
- by Giovanni Adolfo Hasse (1699 - 1783), "Per pietà, bell'idol mio", 1730, first performed 1730 [ strings, tenor voice, and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Giovanni Adolfo Hasse (1699 - 1783), "Per pietà, bell'idol mio", 1760, first performed 1760 [ strings, alto voice, and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Niccolò Jommelli (1714 - 1774), "Per pietà, bell'idol mio", 1749, first performed 1749 [ strings and soprano voice ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Niccolò Jommelli (1714 - 1774), "Per pietà, bell'idol mio", 1749, first performed 1749 [ soprano voice, strings, and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Leopold Antonín Koželuh (1747 - 1818), "Per pietà, bell'idol mio", op. 31 no. 12 [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "Per pietà, bell'idol mio", K. 78, K. 73b (c1766), stanza 1 [ soprano, orchestra ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Leonardo Vinci (1690 - 1730), "Per pietà, bell' idol mio", HelN 78 no. 4 (1730), first performed 1730 [ strings, soprano voice, and continuo ], from opera Artaserse, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Camilla Bugge) , "For Pity's Sake", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Hab Erbarmen, mein schöner Abgott", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Johann Christoph Grünbaum)
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 48
Undankbar kannst du mich nennen?
Language: German (Deutsch) after the Italian (Italiano)
Undankbar kannst du mich nennen? Ach, wie kannst du so mich schelten? Meine Liebe mir so vergelten? Ach, wie kannst du so grausam sein? Du musst ja mein Herz doch kennen, das in ewig treuen Schlägen dir allein nur pocht entgegen, ja, du kennst es, nur du allein.
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From the Curschmann score.
Text Authorship:
- Singable translation by Johann Christoph Grünbaum (1785 - 1870) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Artaserse, Act I, Scene V
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this page: Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website: 2025-12-06
Line count: 8
Word count: 48