Te solo adoro | Te solo adoro

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

Te solo adoro

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: CAT ENG FRE

Te solo adoro,
Mente infinita,
Fonte di vita,
Di verità;

In cui si muove,
Da cui dipende
Quanto comprende
L'eternità.

Available sung texts: ← What is this?

• L. Beethoven

L. Beethoven sets stanza 1

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Tutte le opere di Pietro Metastasio, Firenze, Tipografia Borghi e compagni 1832, page 532.

The text appears in "La Betulia liberata", parte II, Aria di Achior.

Text Authorship:

by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, written 1734, appears in La Betulia liberata [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 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827), "Te solo adoro", WoO 186 (1824), stanza 1 [ tenor and bass voices ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "Te solo adoro", K 118 (1771), from oratorio Betulia liberata, no. 13 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Te solo adoro", D 34 (1812), published 1940 [ vocal quartet ], Composition exercise (during Schubert's studies with Salieri) [sung text not yet checked]

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