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Ah rammenta, o bella Irene, Che giurasti a me costanza; Ah ritorna, amato bene, Ah ritorna al primo amor, Qual conforto, oh Dio, m'avanza? Chi sarà la mia speranza? Per chi viver più degg' io, Se più mio non è quel cor?
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Confirmed with Poesie del Signor Abbate Pietro Metastasio. Poeta e Bibliotecario Cesareo, Tomo Sesto. Londra, 1774, pages 352-353.
Authorship
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Cantate, in 3. Il Trionfo della Gloria, in 14. Il Ritorno [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), "Ah rammenta, o bella Irene", WoO 99 no. 6 [ SATB quartet with piano ], from Mehrstimmige italienische Gesänge, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
This text (or a part of it) is used in a work
- by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848), "Ah rammenta o bella Irene"
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Italian (Italiano), [adaptation] ; composed by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Luk Laerenbergh) , "Ah! remember, lovely Irene", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this text: Luk Laerenbergh , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 42
Ach, besinn’ dich, schön’ Irene, dass du Treue mir geschworen. Kehr zurück, geliebte Schöne, zu der ersten Liebe dein. Welcher Trost, o Gott, verbleibt mir, wer wird meine Hoffnung sein? Welchem neuen soll ich leben, wenn dies Herz nicht länger mein?
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Translation of title "Ah rammenta" = "Ach, besinn' dich"Authorship
- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2020 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Cantate, in 3. Il Trionfo della Gloria, in 14. Il Ritorno
This text was added to the website: 2020-02-17
Line count: 8
Word count: 41