Geliebte Wälder, o Freiheit

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

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Oh care selve, oh cara

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: GER

CORO
Oh care selve, oh cara
Felice libertà!

ARGENE
Qui, se un piacer si gode,
Parte non v'ha la frode,
Ma lo condisce a gara
Amore e fedeltà.

CORO
O care selve, o cara
felice libertà!
 
ARGENE
Qui poco ognun possiede
e ricco ognun si crede;
né più bramando impara
che cosa è povertà.
 
CORO
O care selve, o cara
felice libertà!
 
ARGENE
Senza custodi o mura
la pace è qui sicura,
che l’altrui voglia avara
onde allettar non ha.
 
CORO

O care selve, o cara
felice libertà!
 
ARGENE
Qui gl’innocenti amori
di ninfe...

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• L. Beethoven

L. Beethoven sets stanzas 1-2

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Olimpiade [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 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827), "Oh care selve, oh cara", WoO. 119 (1794), stanzas 1-2 [ unison chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Alberto Villar , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2009-05-13
Line count: 30
Word count: 94

Geliebte Wälder, o Freiheit

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Italian (Italiano)

Chor:
Geliebte Wälder, o Freiheit,
die uns glückselig macht!

Argene:
Wenn man sich des erfreut,
kein Lug und Trug dort dräut,
vielmehr wetteifern rege
die Liebe und die Treue.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Olimpiade
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This text was added to the website: 2020-02-17
Line count: 8
Word count: 29