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

Serbate, o Dei custodi
 (Sung text for setting by W. Mozart)
 See original
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG FRE
Serbate, o Dei custodi
Della Romana sorte,
In Tito, il giusto, il forte,
L'onor di nostra età.

 ... 

The text appears in "La Clemenza di Tito", atto I, scena V

Composition:

    Set to music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "Serbate, o Dei custodi", K 621 no. 5 (1791), first performed 1791, stanza 1, from opera La clemenza di Tito, no. 5

Text Authorship:

  • by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, written 1734, appears in La Clemenza di Tito

See other settings of this text.

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Serveu, oh déus custodis", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Preserve, o gods", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Gardez, ô Dieux gardiens", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 50

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