[Ne']1 campi e nelle selve
  Seguivo già le belve,
  Pascevo il gregge ancor
  Libero pastorello,
  Libero cacciator;
  Ora non son più quello:
  Perdei la libertà.
E quel ch'è peggio, oh Dio,
  Come se il mio tormento
  Colpa non sia di lei,
  Mostrare al mio lamento
  Clori non vuol pietà.

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Confirmed with Opere di Pietro Metastasio, Volume unico, Trieste, Sezione Letterario-Artistica del Lloyd Austriaco, 1857, pages 554-555.

¹ Beethoven: "Nei"

Text Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Cantate, in 2. Il tabacco, in 9. Cantata IX [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 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827), "Nei campi e nelle selve", WoO 99 no. 10 (1801-2) [ SATB quartet with piano ], from Mehrstimmige italienische Gesänge, no. 10, formerly number 7 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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