Serbate, o Dei custodi
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Our translations: CAT ENG FRE
Serbate, o Dei custodi
Della Romana sorte,
In Tito, il giusto, il forte,
L'onor di nostra età.
Voi gl'immortali allori
Su la Cesarea chioma,
Voi custodite a Roma
La sua felicità.
Fu vostro un sì gran dono;
Sia lungo il dono vostro;
L'invidii al mondo nostro
Il mondo che verrà.
Available sung texts: (what is this?)
• W. Mozart
W. Mozart sets stanza 1
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Confirmed with Tutte le opere di Pietro Metastasio, Firenze, Tipografia Borghi e compagni 1832, page 251.
The text appears in "La Clemenza di Tito", atto I, scena V
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Giovanni Adolfo Hasse (1699 - 1783), "Serbate, o Dei custodi", 1735, first performed 1735 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "Serbate, o Dei custodi", K 621 no. 5 (1791), first performed 1791, stanza 1, from opera La clemenza di Tito, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Serbate, o Dei custodi", D 35 (1812), published 1940 [ vocal quartet, mixed chorus, tenor with basso continuo ], 3 composition exercises (during Schubert's studies with Salieri)  [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Serveu, oh déus custodis", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Preserve, o gods", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Gardez, ô Dieux gardiens", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Serveu, oh déus custodis
Language: Catalan (Català)  after the Italian (Italiano)
Serveu, oh déus custodis
del destí de Roma,
en Tit, el just, el poderós,
l’honor de la nostra època.
Vosaltres, llorers immortals,
damunt la testa imperial,
vetlleu per a Roma
la seva benaurança.
Tan gran fou la nostra ofrena
que ha de perdurar molt de temps;
l’enveja del nostre món
per al que ha de venir.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to Catalan (Català) copyright © 2019 by Salvador Pila, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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