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Quell'innocente figlio, Dono del Ciel sì raro, Quel figlio a te sì caro, Quello vuol Dio da te. Vuol che rimanga esangue Sotto al paterno ciglio; Vuol che ne sparga il sangue Chi vita già gli diè.
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Confirmed with Tutte le opere di Pietro Metastasio, Firenze, Tipografia Borghi e compagni 1832, page 543.
The text appears in "Isacco figura del redentore", parte I, Aria dell' Angelo.
Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, written 1740, appears in Isacco figura del redentore [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 Niccolò Jommelli (1714 - 1774), "Quell'innocente figlio", 1742, first performed 1742 [ strings and soprano voice ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Quell'innocente figlio", D 17 (1812?), published 1940, 9 composition exercises (during Schubert's studies with Salieri) for 1 to 4 voices without piano (piano part added by Reinhard van Hoorickx) [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Aquell fill innocent", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "That innocent son", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Ce fils innocent", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Dieser unschuldige Sohn", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 37
That innocent son, such a rare gift of heaven, that son so dear to you, it is him who God demands from you. He wants me, the father, to remain weak before His fatherly eyes, he wants me to shed the blood of whom I have given life.
Authorship:
- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to English copyright © 2008 by Bertram Kottmann, (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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Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, written 1740, appears in Isacco figura del redentore
This text was added to the website: 2008-02-27
Line count: 8
Word count: 48