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possibly by Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (c1561 - 1613)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Mille volte il dì

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: GER

Mille volte il dì moro,
E voi, empi sospiri,
Non fate, oimè, che in sospirando io spiri?
E tu, alma crudele, se il mio duolo
T'affligge sì, che non ten' fuggi a volo?
Ahi, che sol Morte al mio duol aspro e rio
Divien pietosa e ancide il viver mio!
Così dunque i sospiri e l'alma mia
Sono ver me spietati e Morte pia.

Text Authorship:

possibly by Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (c1561 - 1613) [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 Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (c1561 - 1613), "Mille volte il dì" [chorus] [
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Tausendmal am Tage sterbe ich", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2011-05-13
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Word count: 64

Tausendmal am Tage sterbe ich

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

Tausendmal am Tage sterbe ich.
Und ihr, unglücksel’ge Seufzer,
lasst nicht zu, dass ich seufzend sterbe?
Und du, grausame Seele, wenn meine Pein 
dich so betrübt, warum enteilst du nicht im Flug?
Ach, nur der Tod hat mit meiner bittern, schlimmen Pein 
Erbarmen und nimmt das Leben mir.
So sind denn meine Seufzer, meine Seele
ohne Gnade und der Tod barmherzig.

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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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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) possibly by Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (c1561 - 1613)
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This text was added to the website: 2015-12-11
Line count: 9
Word count: 61