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Già la notte s'avvicina:
Vieni, o Nice, amato bene,
Della placida marina
Le fresch' aure a respirar.
Non sa dir che sia diletto
Chi non posa in queste arene,
Or che un lento zeffiretto
Dolcemente increspa il mar.
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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-2 of the original text.
Composition:
- Set to music by Antonio Salieri (1750 - 1825), no title, 1803, stanzas 1-2 [ voice and piano ], from Divertimenti vocali, no. 2, confirmed with a CD booklet
Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Cantate, in 3. Il Trionfo della Gloria, in 10. La pesca
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Margaret Smythe) , "Already night is approaching", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Déjà la nuit s'approche", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Johannes Becker) , "Schon naht die Nacht", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , David K. Smythe , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor] , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 218
Already night is approaching,
come o Nice, my beloved,
from the calm seascape
let us breathe the fresh zephyrs.
No one can say that he is loved
unless he stands on these sands
now that a slow little breeze
gently ripples the sea.
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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-2 of the original text.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to English copyright © by Margaret Smythe, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf.
Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Cantate, in 3. Il Trionfo della Gloria, in 10. La pesca
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 42
Word count: 43