I’d know that beautiful face

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

Translation © by Laura Stanfield Prichard

[No title]

(Sung text for setting by D. Kuhlau)

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Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Io lo so, che il bel sembiante 
Un istante, oh Dio! mirai, 
E mai più da quell'istante 
No lasciai di sospirar.

Io lo so; lo sanno queste
Valli ombrose, erme foreste
che'an da me quel nome amato 
Imparato a replicar.

Note: Excerpted from "Il consiglio", Cantata VI.

Composition:

Daniel Friedrich Rudolph Kuhlau

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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title

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GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Johann Christoph Grünbaum)

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This text was added to the website: 2011-06-02
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Word count: 44

I’d know that beautiful face

(Sung text translation for setting by D. Kuhlau)

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Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

I’d know that beautiful face 
in an instant, oh God! I saw it,
and ever since that instant
I haven’t stopped sighing!

I know it, they know these
shady valleys, forests of Hermes, 
who have learned to repeat
that name I loved.

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