Just heaven, if you feel | Just heaven, if you feel

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by Nicola Francesco Haym (1679 - 1730)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Se pietà di me non senti

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Se pietà di me non senti
giusto ciel io morirò.

Tu da' pace a' miei tormenti
o quest'alma spirerò.

Text Authorship:

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), "Se pietà di me non senti", HWV 17 (1724), first performed 1724 [strings, bassoon, soprano voice, and continuo], from the opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto, no. 29. [ sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Just heaven, if you feel", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Just heaven, if you feel

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Just heaven, if you feel
no pity for me,
I shall die.

I shall give up the ghost
if you do not pacify my torment.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Nicola Francesco Haym (1679 - 1730)
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This text was added to the website: 2018-08-03
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