Seul, brûlant, je demeure à l'ombre

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by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Sol io ardendo all'ombra mi rimango

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: FRE

Sol io ardendo all'ombra mi rimango,
quand'el sol de'suo razzi el mondo spoglia:
Ogni altro per piacere, e io per doglia,
prostrato in terra, mi lamento e piango.

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Text Authorship:

by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), appears in Rime, no. 2 [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 Aribert Reimann (b. 1936), "Sol io ardendo all'ombra mi rimango", 1985, from Tre Poemi di Michelangelo für Bariton und Klavier, no. 1, composed for Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's 60^th birthday [sung text checked 1 time]

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FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Seul, brûlant, je demeure à l'ombre

Language: French (Français) after the Italian (Italiano)

Seul, brûlant, je demeure à l'ombre
Quand le soleil, de ses rayons, dépouille le monde :
Les autres par plaisir, et moi par souffrance,
Prostré à terre, je me lamente et je pleure.

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Translation from Italian (Italiano) to French (Français) copyright © 2011 by Guy Laffaille, (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 Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), appears in Rime, no. 2
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This text was added to the website: 2011-04-10
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Word count: 32