You are the beating heart of my heart, (Haym, set by (Georg Friedrich Händel)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Nicola Francesco Haym (1679 - 1730)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Tu sei il cor di questo core

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Available translation(s): ENG

Tu sei il cor di questo core,
sei il mio ben, non t'adirar!

Per amor io chiedo amore,
più da te non vuò bramar.

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by Nicola Francesco Haym (1679 - 1730) [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 Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Tu sei il cor di questo core", HWV 17 (1724), first performed 1724, from the opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto, no. 15. [ sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "You are the beating heart of my heart,", 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: 2018-06-02
Line count: 4
Word count: 24

You are the beating heart of my heart,

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

You are the beating heart of my heart,
do not get angry, my love!

I seek nothing more than love from you
in response to my love.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Nicola Francesco Haym (1679 - 1730)

This text was added to the website: 2018-08-03
Line count: 4
Word count: 27