In einer einsamen Kammer | In einer einsamen Kammer

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by Jacopo Vittorelli (1749 - 1835)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

In solitaria stanza

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG FRE GER

In solitaria stanza
Langue per doglia atroce:
Il labbro è senza voce,
Senza respiro il sen.

Come in deserta aiuola,
Che di rugiade è priva,
Sotto alla vampa estiva
Molle narcisso svien.

Io, dall'affanno oppresso,
Corro per vie rimote,
E grido in suon che puote
Le rupi intenerir:

Salvate, o Dei pietosi,
Quella beltà celeste:
Voi forse non sapreste
Un'altra Irene ordir.

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Text Authorship:

by Jacopo Vittorelli (1749 - 1835), no title, appears in Anacreontiche, in Ad Irene, no. 4 [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 Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901), "In solitaria stanza", 1838, from 6 Romanze, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Emily Ezust) , copyright © 2019
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Dans une pièce solitaire", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "In einer einsamen Kammer", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 62

In einer einsamen Kammer

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Italian (Italiano)

In einer einsamen Kammer
vergeht sie vor heftigem Weh:
kein Ton kommt ihr über die Lippen,
kein Atem hebt mehr ihre Brust,

so wie im vernachlässigten Beet,
dem kühlenden Tau entzogen
in des Sommers sengender Glut
die erschöpfte Narzisse erstirbt.

Bedrückt von Kummer und Sorge
eil’ ich auf einsamen Wegen
und klage so laut, dass selbst
Steine erweichen:

Bewahrt, o barmherzige Götter,
dies himmlisch schöne Wesen!
Eine neue Irene zu schaffen,
würd’ euch wohl nicht gelingen.

Text Authorship:

Translation from Italian (Italiano) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Jacopo Vittorelli (1749 - 1835), no title, appears in Anacreontiche, in Ad Irene, no. 4
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This text was added to the website: 2015-04-07
Line count: 16
Word count: 76