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by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Il nocchier, che si figura

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

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Il nocchier, che si figura
Ogni scoglio, ogni tempesta
Non si lagni se poi resta
Un mendico pescator.

Darsi in braccio ancor conviene
Qualche volta alla fortuna;
che sovente in ciò ch’avviene
la fortuna ha parte ancor.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• G. Hasse • N. Jommelli

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Ezio [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), "Il nocchier, che si figura", HWV 29, from opera Ezio, no. [sung text checked 1 time]
by Giovanni Adolfo Hasse (1699 - 1783), "Il nocchier che si figura", 1755, first performed 1755 [ 2 oboes, strings, tenor voice, and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Niccolò Jommelli (1714 - 1774), "Il nocchier che si figura", 1741, first performed 1741 [ 2 oboes, 2 horns, strings, tenor voice, and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Let the helmsman who imagines", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2018-04-24
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Let the helmsman who imagines

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

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Let the helmsman who imagines
each treacherous rock
and each ocean storm,
not complain, if after all of that,
he must still reckon with a beggarly fisherman.

It is sometimes worthwhile to 
trust oneself ever to fortune,
for often in unforeseen eventualities,
fortune plays her part.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Ezio
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This text was added to the website: 2018-08-16
Line count: 9
Word count: 46