Pobre infant (Trapassi, set by (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Peter Schubert)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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

Translation © by Salvador Pila

Misero pargoletto

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Available translation(s): CAT ENG FRE GER

Misero pargoletto,
Il tuo destin non sai.
Ah! non gli dite mai
Qual era il genitor.

Come in un punto, oh Dio,
Tutto [cambiò]¹ d'aspetto!
Voi foste il mio diletto,
Voi siete il mio terror.

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Confirmed with Tutte le opere di Pietro Metastasio, Firenze, Tipografia Borghi e compagni 1832, page 246.

The text appears in "Demofoonte", atto III, scena V (Timante's aria).

¹ Schubert: "cangiò"

Authorship

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, written 1733, appears in Demofoonte [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 Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Misero pargoletto", D 42 (1813?), published 1895 [sung text checked 1 time]

This text (or a part of it) is used in a work

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "Misero me . . . Misero pargaletto", K. 77 (1771) [ soprano and orchestra ]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

Research team for this text: Richard Morris , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 35

Pobre infant

Language: Catalan (Català) after the Italian (Italiano)

Pobre infant,
no saps quin és el teu destí.
Ai! No li diguis mai
qui era el seu pare.

Com, en un instant, oh Déu,
tot canvià d'aspecte!
Vos fóreu el meu estimat,
i ara sou el meu terror.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, written 1733, appears in Demofoonte

This text was added to the website: 2017-12-28
Line count: 8
Word count: 39