by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
So che un sogno è la speranza
Language: Italian (Italiano)
So che un sogno è la speranza, so che spesso il ver non dice; ma pietosa ingannatrice consolando almen mi va. Fra quei sogni il core ha pace e capace almen si rende di sue barbare vicende a soffrir la crudeltà.
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Confirmed with Opere del signor Ab. Pietro Metastasio, Bd. 9, Venezia, 1795.
Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Il ruggiero ovvero L'eroica gratitudine [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 August Ferdinand Häser (1779 - 1844), "La speranza", also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by August Ferdinand Häser.
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