Serbate, o Dei custodi | Serbate, o Dei custodi

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

Serbate, o Dei custodi

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: CAT ENG FRE

Serbate, o Dei custodi
Della Romana sorte,
In Tito, il giusto, il forte,
L'onor di nostra età.

Voi gl'immortali allori
Su la Cesarea chioma,
Voi custodite a Roma
La sua felicità.

Fu vostro un sì gran dono;
Sia lungo il dono vostro;
L'invidii al mondo nostro
Il mondo che verrà.

Available sung texts: ← What is this?

• G. Hasse • W. Mozart • F. Schubert

W. Mozart sets stanza 1

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Confirmed with Tutte le opere di Pietro Metastasio, Firenze, Tipografia Borghi e compagni 1832, page 251.

The text appears in "La Clemenza di Tito", atto I, scena V

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, written 1734, appears in La Clemenza di Tito [author's text checked 1 time 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 Giovanni Adolfo Hasse (1699 - 1783), "Serbate, o Dei custodi", 1735, first performed 1735 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "Serbate, o Dei custodi", K 621 no. 5 (1791), first performed 1791, stanza 1, from opera La clemenza di Tito, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Serbate, o Dei custodi", D 35 (1812), published 1940 [ vocal quartet, mixed chorus, tenor with basso continuo ], 3 composition exercises (during Schubert's studies with Salieri) [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 50

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