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

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Cedo alla sorte

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Cedo alla sorte
gli allori estremi;
non son più forte
per contrastar.
 
Nemico è il vento,
l'onda è infedele;
non ho più remi,
non ho più vele
e a suo talento
mi porta il mar.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• F. Mendelssohn

F. Mendelssohn sets stanza 1

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Confirmed with Achille in Sciro, by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi, Vienna, van Ghelen, 1736, lines 1136-1145.

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Achille in Sciro [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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by (Jakob Ludwig) Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 - 1847), "Ch'io t'abbandono in periglio sì grande", 1825 [ voice and piano ]

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2019-11-27
Line count: 10
Word count: 35

Je cède au sort

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

Je cède au sort
Les derniers lauriers ;
Je n'ai plus la force
De résister.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Achille in Sciro
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This text was added to the website: 2020-03-02
Line count: 10
Word count: 14