Ti voglio amar, se la terra tremasse,
ti voglio amar, se il ciel [venisse]1 a terra,
ti voglio amar, se tu [m'abbandonasse]2,
se tu m'abbandondonassi,
se gli occhi miei [e']3 tuoi facesser guerra
e gli occhi [miei e' tuoi]4 guerra faranno.
Ti voglio amar, se [contenti saranno]5.

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Confirmed with Canti popolari Toscani, raccolti e annotati da Giuseppe Tigri, Firenze, 1856.

Note for line 3, word 6: the original text has "m'abbandonasse", which is not grammatically correct but is an "idiotismo fiorentino" (Florentine idiom)

Note for Viardot-García's setting: when line 7 is repeated, the altered words "contenta sarai" revert to the original "contenti saranno".

¹ Viardot-García: "cadesse"
² Viardot-García: "m'abbandonassi"
³ Viardot-García: "a"
⁴ Viardot-García: "tuoi ai me"
⁵ Viardot-García: "contenta sarai"

Text Authorship:

• from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , no title [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 Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Ti voglio amar!", op. 6 (Six Mélodies pour chant et piano) no. 6, published [1910] [ voice and piano ], Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
• by Pauline Viardot-García (1821 - 1910), "Ti voglio amar", VWV 1070 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2023-01-13
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