Par che di giubilo
L’alma deliri:
Par che mi manchino
[Quasi i respiri]1;
Che fuor del petto
Mi [balzi]2 il cor.
 
Quanto è più facile
Che un gran diletto
Giunga ad uccidere
Che un gran dolor!

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Confirmed with Opere di Pietro Metastasio, Milano, per Nicolò Bettoni, 1829, page 187.

¹ Giuliani, Jommelli: "quas'i sospiri"
² Giuliani, Jommelli: "balz' "

Text Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Ciro riconosciuto [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 Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani (1781 - 1829), "Par che di giubilo l'alma deliri", op. 39 no. 1 [ voice and guitar or piano ], from Sei Cavatine , no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Giovanni Adolfo Hasse (1699 - 1783), "Par che di giubilo", 1751, first performed 1751 [ strings, soprano voice, and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Niccolò Jommelli (1714 - 1774), "Par che di giubilo" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Leonardo Leo (1694 - 1744), "Par che di giubilo", 1739, first performed 1739 [ 2 horns, 2 oboes, strings, soprano voice, and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Giuseppe Sarti (1729 - 1802), "Par che di giubilo", 1754, first performed 1754 [ strings, soprano voice, and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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• ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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