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Bramar di perdere per troppo affetto parte dell'anima nel caro oggetto è il duol più barbaro d'ogni dolor. Pur fra le pene sarò felice, se il caro bene sospira e dice: «Troppo a Semira fu ingrato amor».
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Authorship
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Artaserse [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 Baldassare Galuppi (1706 - 1785), "Bramar di perdere" [ strings and alto voice ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Giovanni Adolfo Hasse (1699 - 1783), "Bramar di perdere per troppo affetto", 1726, first performed 1730 [ strings, soprano voice, and continuo ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Leonardo Vinci (1690 - 1730), "Bramar di perdere troppo affetto", HelN 78 no. 6 (1730), first performed 1730 [ strings, soprano voice, and continuo ], from opera Artaserse, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2018-04-21
Line count: 12
Word count: 37
To wish to lose out of too much love a part of one's soul in one's dearest treasure is the most barbarous of all pain. I shall yet be happy in the midst of such pain if my dearest love sighs and says, "Love has been too ungrateful to Semira."
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"Bramar di perdere per troppo affetto" = "To wish to lose out of too much love"
"Bramar di perdere" = "To wish to lose"
"Bramar di perdere troppo affetto" = "To wish to lose out of too much love"
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- Translation from Italian (Italiano) to English copyright © 2020 by Andrew Schneider, (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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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Artaserse
This text was added to the website: 2020-01-29
Line count: 12
Word count: 50