Oh, how greatly I should like (Parini, set by (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Giuseppe Parini (1729 - 1799)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Ah di sì nobil alma

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Available translation(s): ENG

Ah di sì nobil alma  
quanto parlar vorrei!
Se le virtù di lei
tutte saper pretendi,
chiedile a questo cor.

Solo un momento in calma
lasciami, o diva, e poi
di tanti pregi suoi
potrò parlarti allor.

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by Giuseppe Parini (1729 - 1799) [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 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "Ah di sì nobil alma", K. 111, from opera Ascanio in Alba [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Oh, how greatly I should like", 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: 2018-05-19
Line count: 9
Word count: 37

Oh, how greatly I should like

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Oh, how greatly I should like
to talk to such a noble soul!
If you would seek to know
about all its virtues,
ask this my heart to relate them.

Only one moment leave me 
in calm, o goddess,
and then to you I shall relate
her many merits.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Giuseppe Parini (1729 - 1799)

This text was added to the website: 2019-11-02
Line count: 9
Word count: 49