Muore il tenero Adone (Quasimodo, set by Luigi Dallapiccola) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)

Translation © by Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 - 1968)

Κατθνάισκει, Κυθέρη᾽, ἄβρος

Language: Aeolic Greek

Available translation(s): FRE

Κατθνάισκει, Κυθέρη᾽, ἄβρος Ἄδωνις∙ τί  κε  θεῖμεν;
καττύπτεσθε, κόραι, καὶ κατερείκεσθε   κίθωνας.

Authorship

by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), "Κατθνάισκει, Κυθέρη᾽, ἄβρος" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 - 1968) , copyright © ENG ENG FRE RUS ; composed by Luigi Dallapiccola.
Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949) , "Плач по Адонису", appears in Сапфо и Алкей (Sapfo i Alkej) [an adaptation] ENG FRE ITA ; composed by Arthur Vincent Lourié.

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ENG English (Henry Thornton Wharton)
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Ferdinando Albeggiani

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Muore il tenero Adone

Language: Italian (Italiano) after the Aeolic Greek

Available translation(s): ENG

Muore il tenero Adone, o Citerea
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Authorship

by Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 - 1968), copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on

a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), "Κατθνάισκει, Κυθέρη᾽, ἄβρος"

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Luigi Dallapiccola (1904 - 1975), "Muore il tenero Adone", from Cinque Frammenti di Saffo, no. 3. [
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