Arbace
Per quel paterno amplesso,  
per questo estremo addio,
conservami te stesso,
placami l'idol mio,
difendimi il mio re.

[Vado a morir beato,
se della Persia il fato
tutto si sfoga in me.]1

W. Mozart sets stanza 1

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¹ Cimarosa:

Barbara io vado a morte!
Contenta al fin sarai.
Ah nò, sperò giammai
tal sorte la mia fè.

Text Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Artaserse [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):

• by Domenico Cimarosa (1749 - 1801), "Per quel paterno amplesso", 1784, first performed 1784 [ 2 horns, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, strings, and soprano voice ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Carl Heinrich Graun (1704 - 1759), "Per quel paterno amplesso", GraunWV B:I:8 (1743), first performed 1743 [ soprano voice, strings, flutes, and continuo ], from opera Artaserse [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Leonardo Leo (1694 - 1744), "Per quel paterno amplesso" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Leonardo Vinci (1690 - 1730), "Per quel paterno amplesso", HelN 78 no. 18 (1730), first performed 1730 [ strings, soprano voice, and continuo ], from opera Artaserse, no. 18 [sung text checked 1 time]

The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:

• by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "Oh, temerario Arbace", K. 79, K. 73d (c1766) [ soprano, orchestra ]
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "By this paternal embrace", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-04-26
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Word count: 34