Mi lagnerò tacendo 
[Del mio destino avaro]1
Ma ch'io non t'ami, o cara, 
Non lo sperar da me.

[Crudele]2, [in che t'offendo]3
[Se resta a questo petto
Il misero diletto
Di sospirar per te?]4

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¹ Rossini: "della mia sorte amara, ah!"; Mozart: "Della mia sorte avara"
² Mozart, Rossini: "Crudel"
³ Rossini: "in che t'offesi" or "perchè fin'ora"
⁴ Rossini: "farmi penar così? /Crudel! Non lo sperar da me."

Text Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Siroe, re di Persia, Act II, Scene 1 (Laodice), first published 1726 [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 Franz Danzi (1763 - 1826), "Mi lagnero tacendo", op. 40 (12 Canzonette Italiane) no. 2, P 184 no. 2, published 1813 [ voice and piano ], Munich: Falter et Figlio [sung text not yet checked]
• by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Mi lagnerò tacendo", HWV 24, first performed 1728 [ violins, soprano voice, and continuo ], from opera Siroe, re di Persia [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Daniel Friedrich Rudolph Kuhlau (1786 - 1832), "Mi lagnerò tacendo", op. 9 no. 5 (c1813), published [1814] [ voice and piano ], from Sei Canzoni, no. 5, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "Mi lagnerò tacendo", subtitle: "Notturno", K. 437 (1783) [ SSB trio, 2 clarinets, and bassethorn ], from Sechs Nocturnos, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Vincenzo Righini (1756 - 1812), "Mi lagnerò tacendo", op. 7 no. 9, from Dodici Ariette, no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868), "Il rimprovero", alternate title: "Tirana alla Spagnola (rossinizzata)" [ soprano and piano ], from Péchés de vieillesse, Vol I: Album italiano, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868), "Bolero" [ voice, piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868), "Aragonese" [ soprano and piano ], from Péchés de vieillesse, Vol XI: Miscellanée de musique vocale, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868), "Arietta all'antica, dedotta dal "O salutaris Ostia"" [ soprano and piano ], from Péchés de vieillesse, Vol XI: Miscellanée de musique vocale, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868), "Musique anodine" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Andrew Schneider (b. 1991), "Mi lagnerò tacendo", 2012, first performed 2012 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• ENG English (Johann Gaitzsch) , "The reproach", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Louis-Ernest Crevel de Charlemagne) , "Le reproche", from the 1st volume of Rossini's Soirées musicales, Schott, first published 1835
• GER German (Deutsch) (G. Friedrich) , "Der Vorwurf", from the 1st volume of Rossini's Soirées musicales, Schott, first published 1835

Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 39

 Wohl trag den Schmerz ich mit Schweigen,
 muss mich dem Unglück beugen,
 ja, doch  ach! Von dir je zu lassen,
 dies fordre nicht von mir. 
 Kannst du mich Armen hassen, 
 dann stosse mich von dir.