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

Nasce al bosco in rozza cuna
 (Sung text for setting by G. Händel)
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Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  ENG
Nasce al bosco in rozza cuna
un felice pastorello
e coll’aure di fortuna
giunge i regni a dominar.
 
Presso al trono in regie fasce
sventurato un altro nasce
e fra l’ire della sorte
va gli armenti a pascolar.

Composition:

    Set to music by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Nasce al bosco in rozza cuna", HWV 29 (1732), first performed 1732 [ oboe, strings, bass voice, and continuo ], from opera Ezio, no.

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  • ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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This text was added to the website: 2018-07-23
Line count: 8
Word count: 38