I’d know that beautiful face

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

Translation © by Laura Prichard

Io lo so, che il bel sembiante

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Io lo so, che il bel sembiante 
Un istante, oh Dio! mirai, 
E mai più da quell'istante 
[Non]¹ lasciai di sospirar.

Io lo so; lo sanno queste
Valli ombrose, erme foreste
[Che han]² da me quel nome amato 
Imparato a replicar.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• D. Kuhlau • V. Righini

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Excerpted from "Il consiglio", Cantata VI.
¹ Righini, Kuhlau: "No"
² Kuhlau: "che'an"

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title [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 Daniel Friedrich Rudolph Kuhlau (1786 - 1832), "Io lo so, che il bel sembiante ", op. 9 no. 3 (c1813), published [1814] [voice and piano], from Sei Canzoni, no. 3, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [
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by Vincenzo Righini (1756 - 1812), "Io lo so", op. 7 no. 3, from the collection Dodici Ariette, no. 3. [
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]

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ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2011-06-02
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Word count: 43

I’d know that beautiful face

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

I’d know that beautiful face 
in an instant, oh God! I saw [it],
and ever since that instant
I haven’t stopped sighing!

I know it, they know these
shady valleys, forests of Hermes, 
who have learned to repeat
that name I loved.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title
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This text was added to the website: 2016-04-13
Line count: 8
Word count: 42