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Luci care, luci belle Cari lumi amate stelle Date calma a questo core. Se per voi sospiro e moro Idol mio, mio bel tesoro Forza e solo del Dio d'amore.
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Authorship:
- possibly by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio [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 Joel Balzun (b. 1990), "Dio d'amore", 2013 [ soprano and piano ], from Canti della fato e amore, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "Luci care", K. 346, K. 439a [ SSB trio and three bassethorns ], from Sechs Nocturnos, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Romney) , "Dear lights", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Rakkaat silmät", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Jeremy Sagnier) , "Chers yeux", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-10-06
Line count: 6
Word count: 30
Rakkaat silmät, kauniit silmät, hellät valot, armat tähdet, antakaa rauha tähän sydämeen! Jos minä teidän takianne huokaan ja kuolen, oma rakkaani, ihana aarteeni, voima tulee vain rakkauden jumalalta.
Authorship:
- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to Finnish (Suomi) copyright © 2017 by Erkki Pullinen, (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.
Erkki Pullinen. Contact: erkki (DOT) pullinen (AT) uniarts (DOT) fi
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Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) possibly by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
This text was added to the website: 2017-09-11
Line count: 6
Word count: 28