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possibly by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio

Deh se m'ami, anima mia
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Deh se m'ami, anima mia,
per me serbati fedele!
forse il fato mio crudele
col mio pianto addolcirò;
 
al tuo amor a te lo giuro,
d'adorarti in fin ch'io viva,
ma se il ciel di te mi priva,
credi oh cara, io morirò.

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Text Authorship:

  • possibly by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio [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 Daniel Friedrich Rudolph Kuhlau (1786 - 1832), "Deh se m'ami, anima mia", op. 9 no. 1 (c1813), published [1814] [voice and piano], from Sei Canzoni, no. 1, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-06-02
Line count: 8
Word count: 43

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