by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
D'un genio che m'accende
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Our translations: ENG
D'un genio che m'accende, Tu vuoi ragion da me? Non ha ragione amore, O, se ragione intende, Subito amor non è. Un amoroso foco Non può spiegarsi mai. Dì che lo sente poco Chi ne ragiona assai, Chi ti sa dir perchè.
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Confirmed with Tutte le opere di Pietro Metastasio, Firenze, Tipografia Borghi e compagni 1832, page 123.
The text appears in Semiramide, atto III, scena VII, Aria di Tamiri.
Text Authorship:
- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, no title, written 1729, appears in Semiramide [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 Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848), "D'un genio, che m'accende" [voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Vincenzo Righini (1756 - 1812), "D' un genio, m' accende", op. 7 no. 6, published [c1805/6] [voice and piano], from Sammlung deutscher und italienischer Gesänge mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, Heft V, no. 5, from Dodici Ariette, no. 6, Leipzig: Bei C. F. Peters (Bureau de Musique.) ; German incipit: "Du fragst von meiner Liebe" [ sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2008-05-01
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