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

Ne' campi e nelle selve
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Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  FIN GER
Ne' campi e nelle selve
  Seguivo già le belve,
  Pascevo il gregge ancor
  Libero pastorello,
  Libero cacciator;
  Ora non son più quello:
  Perdei la libertà.
E quel ch'è peggio, oh Dio,
  Come se il mio tormento
  Colpa non sia di lei,
  Mostrare al mio lamento
  Clori non vuol pietà.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   L. Beethoven 

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Confirmed with Opere di Pietro Metastasio, Volume unico, Trieste, Sezione Letterario-Artistica del Lloyd Austriaco, 1857, pages 554-555.


Text Authorship:

  • by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Cantate, in 2. Il tabacco, in 9. Cantata IX [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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This text was added to the website: 2009-12-17
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