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La pastorella al prato [Col gregge]1 se ne và, Coll' [agnelline]2 al lato Cantando in libertà. Se l'innocente amore Gradisce il suo pastore, La bella pastorella Contenta ognor sarà.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Drammi Giocosi per Musica. Del Sig. Carlo Goldoni. Tomo Nono. Venezia, dalle stampe di Antonio Zatta e figli. Con approvazione, e privilegio. M.DCC.XCV. [1795], page 104; and with Il Filosofo di Campagna. Dramma giocoso per musica da rappresentarsi alla corte elettorale palatina per comando del serenissimo Elettore l'anno 1756. Mannheim nella Stamperia Elettorale, page 118.
The text appears in Il filosofo di campagna, atto II, scena XVI (Lena's aria).
1 Schubert: "Contenta"2 Schubert: "agnellino"
Authorship
- by Carlo Goldoni (1707 - 1793), no title, appears in Il filosofo di campagna [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 Baldassare Galuppi (1706 - 1785), "La pastorella al prato", 1754, first performed 1754 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "La pastorella al prato", D 513 (1817?), published 1891 [ ttbb quartet with piano ], first setting [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "La pastorella al prato", D 528 (1817), published 1872 [ voice, piano ], second setting [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "La pastora a la prada", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Débora Letícia Batista) , "The little shepherdess", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "La bergère au pré", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- POR Portuguese (Português) (Débora Letícia Batista) , no title, copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Aminta Iriarte) , "La pastorcita", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this text: Richard Morris , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]
Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Last modified: 2017-08-16 00:48:30
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La pastorcita va felíz por el prado con una ovejita al lado cantando en libertad. Si el amor inocente fuese lo que gustase a su pastor, La hermosa pastorcita Siempre estaría felíz.
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- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to Spanish (Español) copyright © 2003 by Aminta Iriarte, (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 Carlo Goldoni (1707 - 1793), no title, appears in Il filosofo di campagna
Text added to the website: 2004-02-04 00:00:00
Last modified: 2017-08-16 00:49:35
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Word count: 32