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Come il candore D'intatta neve È d'un bel core La fedeltà. Un'orma sola Che in sé riceve Tutta ne invola La sua beltà.
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Authorship
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, written 1730, appears in Alessandro nell'Indie [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), "Il candore d'un core", 2013 [ soprano and piano ], from Canti della fato e amore, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Come il candore", HWV 28, first performed 1731, from opera Poro, re dell'Indie [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Nicola Vaccaj (1790 - 1848), "Introduzione alle volate", from Metodo pratico di Canto Italiano, no. 10, note: Questa lezione si comincerà col prendere il tempo Adagio poi si affretterà fino all'Allegro secondo l'abilità dell'allievo. [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this text: Alberto Pedrotti , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 23
How the purity of an undisturbed patch of snow is like a loving heart's faithfulness! It takes only one footprint to rob it of all that is beautiful.
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Translations of title(s):
"Come il candore" = "How the purity"
"Introduzione alle volate" = "Introduction to runs"
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- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to English copyright © 2018 by Andrew Schneider, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, written 1730, appears in Alessandro nell'Indie
This text was added to the website: 2018-05-16
Line count: 7
Word count: 28