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

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Dovunque il guardo giro

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Dovunque il guardo giro,
Immenso Dio, ti vedo:
Nell' opre tue t'ammiro,
Ti riconosco in me.

La terra, il mar, le [sfere]¹
Parlan del tuo potere:
Tu sei per tutto, e noi
Totti viviamo in te.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• M. Glinka

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Confirmed with Tutte le opere di Pietro Metastasio, Firenze, Tipografia Borghi e compagni 1832, page 506.

The text appears in La passione di Gesù Cristo, parte II, Aria di Giovanni.

¹ Glinka: "stelle"

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in La passione di Gesù Cristo [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 Antonio Caldara (1670 - 1736), "Dovunque il guardo giro" [ soprano voice, alto trombone, and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804 - 1857), "Dovunque il guardo giro", also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by V. Rozhdestvensky ; composed by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka.

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This text was added to the website: 2003-12-07
Line count: 8
Word count: 37

Wheresoever I look about

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Wheresoever I look about,
Immense God, I see you:
I admire you in your handiwork,
and recognize you in myself.

Earth, sea, the planets,
all speak of your might;
you exist in everything,
and we all live through you.

Text Authorship:

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in La passione di Gesù Cristo
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This text was added to the website: 2018-06-07
Line count: 8
Word count: 39