Within my breast I hear | Within my breast I hear

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by Giuseppe Petrosellini (1727 - 1799)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Dentro il mio petto io sento

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Dentro il mio petto io sento  
un suono, una dolcezza,
di flauti, e di oboè.
Che gioia, che contento,
manco per l'allegrezza,
più bel piacer non v'è.
 
Ma oh dio, che all'improvviso
si cangia l'armonia
che il cor fa palpitar.
Se n'entran le viole,
e in tetra melodia
mi vengono a turbar.
Poi sorge un gran fracasso:
li timpani, le trombe,
fagotti, e contrabbasso
mi fanno disperar.

Text Authorship:

by Giuseppe Petrosellini (1727 - 1799) [author's text not yet checked 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 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "Dentro il mio petto io sento", K 196 no. 3 (1775), first performed 1775, from opera La finta giardiniera, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Within my breast I hear", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-06-03
Line count: 16
Word count: 67

Within my breast I hear

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Within my breast I hear
the sweet sounds
of flute and oboe.
What joy and contentment, to which
a greater pleasure cannot hold a candle
save that of sheer ecstasy.

But, o God! Suddenly,
the harmony changes 
and makes my heart tremble.
The violas enter into the fray 
and torment me 
with a gloomy air.
A great noise suddenly erupts:
kettledrums, trumpets, 
bassoons, contrabass
all combine and cause me to despair.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Giuseppe Petrosellini (1727 - 1799)
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This text was added to the website: 2019-10-06
Line count: 16
Word count: 71