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Io dico all'antro addio; Ma quello al pianto mio Sento che mormorando Addio risponde. Sospiro, e i miei sospiri Ne' replicati giri Zeffiro rende a me Da quelle fronde.
Authorship
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, written 1720, appears in L'Angelica [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 Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (1774 - 1851), "Io dico all'antro addio" [ voice and piano or harp ] [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "I say farewell to my cave", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2017-08-04
Line count: 8
Word count: 29
I say farewell to my cave, but I perceive that it, murmuring, responds to my weeping with its own farewell. I sigh, and Zephyrus proceeds to repeat these sighs, turning them back to me via those branches which sigh with the wind.
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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, written 1720, appears in L'Angelica
This text was added to the website: 2018-07-03
Line count: 8
Word count: 42