Placid little breeze | Placid little breeze

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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio

Translation © by Laura Prichard

Placido zeffiretto

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Placido zeffiretto,
  Se trovi il caro oggetto
  Digli che sei sospiro;
  Ma non gli dir di chi.
Limpido ruscelletto,
  Se [mai t' incontri in lei,
  Dille]¹ che pianto sei
  Ma non [le]² dir qual ciglio
  Crescer ti fè cosi.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• V. Righini

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Confirmed with Tutte le opere di Pietro Metastasio, Volume Unico, Firenze, Tipografia Borghi e Compagni, 1832, page 723.

¹ Righini: "trovi il caro oggetto / Digli"
² Righini: "gli"

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Cantate, in 3. Il Trionfo della Gloria, in 16. Amor timido [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 Vincenzo Righini (1756 - 1812), "Placido zefiretto", op. 7 no. 1, published [c1807] [ voice and piano ], from Sammlung deutscher und italienischer Gesänge mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, Heft VI, no. 4, from Dodici Ariette, no. 1, Leipzig: Bei Ambrosius Kühnel (Bureau de Musique.); German incipit: "Liebliche Lüftchen" [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website: 2015-12-26
Line count: 9
Word count: 41

Placid little breeze

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Placid little breeze,
if you find the beloved one
tell him that you sigh
but do not say whose [sigh].

Clear little brook,
if you find the beloved one
tell him that you cry
but do not say whose eyes
caused you to swell so much.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Cantate, in 3. Il Trionfo della Gloria, in 16. Amor timido
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This text was added to the website: 2015-12-26
Line count: 9
Word count: 46