Die Nacht spricht | Teuer ist mir der Schlaf und mehr noch, Stein zu sein

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by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Caro m’è ’l sonno, e più l’esser di...

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: FRE GER

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]

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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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Die Nacht spricht

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

Teuer ist mir der Schlaf und mehr noch, Stein zu sein,
solange Vorurteil und Schande währen;
nicht sehen und nicht hören sind mir großes Glück;
doch weck’ mich nicht, bitt’ ich, sprich leise.

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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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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), no title, written 1507-30, appears in Rime, no. 247
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This text was added to the website: 2015-07-03
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