Ti sento, sospiri,
Ti lagni d'amore:
Ma soffri, mio core,
Ma impara a tacer;
Che cento martiri
Compensa un piacer.

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Note (courtesy Laura Prichard): This work comes from a group of brief, single-stanza poems (Strofe per musica da cantarsi a canone) that Metastasio wrote and set to music in the form of vocal canons. Donizetti’s autograph manuscript is titled Romanza (Paris, Ms. 4180).

Text Authorship:

• by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Strofe per musica: da cantarsi a canone [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 Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848), "Ti sento, sospiri", alternate title: "I sospiri" [ duet ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Joseph Martin Kraus (1756 - 1792), "Ti sento sospiri", VB 108 (1788) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

• ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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