Text & Translation
Ah! che morir vorrei
Italian source:
Anon.
In si fatal momento,
Ma al mio crudel tormento
Mi serba ingiusto il ciel.
Misera abbandonata
Non ho chi mi consola.
Chi tanto amai s’invola,
Barbaro ed infidel.
Ah, how I should like to die
English translation ©
Misha Donat
in so fatal a moment,
but the heavens unjustly keep me
in my cruel torment.
Wretched and abandoned
I have no one to console me.
He whom I loved so much has fled,
barbarous and unfaithful.
Ah! che morir vorrei
Italian source:
Anon.
Ah, how I should like to die
English source:
Misha Donat
Ah! che morir vorrei
Ah, how I should like to die
In si fatal momento,
in so fatal a moment,
Ma al mio crudel tormento
but the heavens unjustly keep me
Mi serba ingiusto il ciel.
in my cruel torment.
Misera abbandonata
Wretched and abandoned
Non ho chi mi consola.
I have no one to console me.
Chi tanto amai s’invola,
He whom I loved so much has fled,
Barbaro ed infidel.
barbarous and unfaithful.
Composer
Joseph Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was a friend and mentor of Mozart, and tutor of Beethoven. Read more here.
