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Ti sento, sospiri, Ti lagni d'amore: Ma soffri, mio core, Ma impara a tacer; Che cento martiri Compensa un piacer.
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Note (courtesy Laura Prichard): This work comes from a group of brief, single-stanza poems (Strofe per musica da cantarsi a canone) that Metastasio wrote and set to music in the form of vocal canons. Donizetti’s autograph manuscript is titled Romanza (Paris, Ms. 4180).Authorship
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Strofe per musica: da cantarsi a canone [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 Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848), "Ti sento, sospiri", alternate title: "I sospiri". [duet] [ sung text checked 1 time]
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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 between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 20
I hear you, [your] sighing, You complain about love: But you suffer, my heart, So learn to be silent Because a hundred torments [May be] recompensed [by] one pleasure.
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Translator's notes:Line 3: "suffer" - "soffri" is used here in the sense of tolerate, bear, or endure
Line 6: "un piacer" is not “a pleasure,” but “one pleasure” (enough to counterbalance many troubles)
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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Strofe per musica: da cantarsi a canone
This text was added to the website: 2016-04-14
Line count: 6
Word count: 29