by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
Caro m’è ’l sonno, e più l’esser di...
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Caro m’è ’l sonno, e più l’esser di sasso, mentre che ’l danno e la vergogna dura; non veder, non sentir m’è gran ventura; però non mi destar, deh, parla basso.
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Text Authorship:
- by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), no title, written 1507-30, appears in Rime, no. 247 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by André Boucourechliev (1925 - 1997), "La nuit parle", 1995, published 1998 [ high voice, flute, and piano ], from Trois fragments de Michel-Ange, no. 1, Editions Salabert [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "La nuit parle", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Die Nacht spricht", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2014-11-29
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