Par cette étreinte paternelle

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

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Per quel paterno amplesso

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Arbace
Per quel paterno amplesso,  
per questo estremo addio,
conservami te stesso,
placami l'idol mio,
difendimi il mio re.

[Vado a morir beato,
se della Persia il fato
tutto si sfoga in me.]¹

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• D. Cimarosa • W. Mozart

W. Mozart sets stanza 1

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¹ Cimarosa:

Barbara io vado a morte!
Contenta al fin sarai.
Ah nò, sperò giammai
tal sorte la mia fè.

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Artaserse [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 Domenico Cimarosa (1749 - 1801), "Per quel paterno amplesso", 1784, first performed 1784 [ 2 horns, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, strings, and soprano voice ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Carl Heinrich Graun (1704 - 1759), "Per quel paterno amplesso", GraunWV B:I:8 (1743), first performed 1743 [ soprano voice, strings, flutes, and continuo ], from opera Artaserse [sung text checked 1 time]
by Leonardo Leo (1694 - 1744), "Per quel paterno amplesso" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Leonardo Vinci (1690 - 1730), "Per quel paterno amplesso", HelN 78 no. 18 (1730), first performed 1730 [ strings, soprano voice, and continuo ], from opera Artaserse, no. 18 [sung text checked 1 time]

The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "Oh, temerario Arbace", K. 79, K. 73d (c1766) [ soprano, orchestra ]
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "By this paternal embrace", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2018-04-26
Line count: 9
Word count: 34

Par cette étreinte paternelle

Language: French (Français) after the Italian (Italiano)

Arbace
 Par cette étreinte paternelle,
 par cet adieu ultime,
 protège-toi toi-même,
 apaise mon amour,
 défends mon roi.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Artaserse
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This text was added to the website: 2019-10-20
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Word count: 19