by Gaetano Maria Aleardi (1812 - 1878), as Aleardo Aleardi
Dimmi perché se alla campagna io sento
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Dimmi perché se alla campagna io sento un canto, un suono tu mi viene in mente? Dimmi perché se guardo il firmamento in ogni stella tu mi sei presente? Dimmi perché da qual che di mi pare che il mondo non sia [tanto]1 che di te? Tu nei fior, nell'aere, tu nel mare. Sorridi. Adunque tu lo sai perché.
C. Rogers sets stanzas 1-3
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Text Authorship:
- by Gaetano Maria Aleardi (1812 - 1878), as Aleardo Aleardi [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 Alexandrina Esterházy-Rossi (1844 - 1919), "Dimmi perchè se la compagna" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alberto Nepomuceno (1864 - 1920), "Perché", 1888 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844 - 1931), "Perche", stanzas 1-3 [ voice and piano ], unpublished ; according to Women Composers Through The Ages the poet is given as "Alardo Alearchi" (perhaps garbled in the manuscript) and there is no accent in the title [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Marie Jean Albert Widor (1844 - 1937), "Dimmi perchè", op. 35 no. 1 (1878) [ voice and piano ], from 3 mélodies italiennes, no. 1, Paris, J. Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2011-07-22
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