If your pain took flight (Varesco, set by (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Gianbattista Varesco (1735 - 1805)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Se il tuo duol, se il mio desio

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Available translation(s): ENG

Se il tuo duol, se il mio desio  
se n' volassero del pari,
a ubbidirti qual son io,
saria il duol pronto a fuggir.

Quali al trono sian compagni,
chi l'ambisce or veda e impari:
stia lontan, o non si lagni,
se non trova che martir.

Authorship

by Gianbattista Varesco (1735 - 1805) [author's text not yet checked 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 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "Se il tuo duol, se il mio desio", K. 366 (1781), first performed 1781 [ 2 oboes, 2 horns, tenor voice, strings ], from opera Idomeneo, no. 10 [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "If your pain took flight", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2018-06-12
Line count: 8
Word count: 46

If your pain took flight

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

If your pain were to take flight
as speedily as I am eager to serve you,
then your suffering shall
be swift to depart you indeed.

Whoever would seek the throne
should see it and learn to stay far away.
Do not complain if you should find
nothing but anguish there.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Gianbattista Varesco (1735 - 1805)

This text was added to the website: 2019-11-29
Line count: 8
Word count: 51