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Te solo adoro, Mente infinita, Fonte di vita, Di verità; In cui si muove, Da cui dipende Quanto comprende L'eternità.
L. Beethoven sets stanza 1
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Confirmed with Tutte le opere di Pietro Metastasio, Firenze, Tipografia Borghi e compagni 1832, page 532.
The text appears in "La Betulia liberata", parte II, Aria di Achior.
Authorship
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, written 1734, appears in La Betulia liberata [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 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827), "Te solo adoro", WoO 186 (1824), stanza 1 [ tenor and bass voices ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "Te solo adoro", K 118 (1771), from oratorio Betulia liberata, no. 13 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Te solo adoro", D 34 (1812), published 1940 [ vocal quartet ], Composition exercise (during Schubert's studies with Salieri) [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "A tu sol adoro", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "I adore you alone", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Je n'adore que toi", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]
Text added to the website: 2017-04-24 00:00:00
Last modified: 2017-05-02 01:56:27
Line count: 8
Word count: 20
Je n'adore que toi, Esprit infini, Source de vie, De vérité, En qui se meut, De qui dépend Tout ce que contient L'éternité.
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- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to French (Français) copyright © 2018 by Guy Laffaille, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, written 1734, appears in La Betulia liberata
Text added to the website: 2018-11-20 00:00:00
Last modified: 2018-11-20 00:55:00
Line count: 8
Word count: 23