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Non conosco in tal momento se l’amico o il genitore sia più degno di pietà. So però per mio tormento ch’era scelta in me l’amore, ch’era in te necessità.
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Authorship
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, 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 Leonardo Vinci (1690 - 1730), "Non conosco il tal momento", HelN 78 no. 21 (1730), first performed 1730 [ strings, soprano voice, and continuo ], from opera Artaserse, no. 21 [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Whether, in such a moment", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2018-06-21
Line count: 6
Word count: 29
Whether, in such a moment, my friend or his father is more deserving of pity, I do not know. Nevertheless, I know, to my torment, that my love was taken from me, that this was your apparent duty.
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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, appears in Artaserse
This text was added to the website: 2019-10-16
Line count: 6
Word count: 38