Songs

Grazie agl'inganni tuoi

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Grazie agl'inganni tuoi
Italian source: Pietro Metastasio

Grazie agl'inganni tuoi,
Al fin respiro, o Nice,
Al fin d'un infelice
Ebber gli Dei pietà:
Sento da' lacci suoi,
Sento che l' Alma è sciolta:
Non sogno questa volta,
Non sogno libertà.

E (non t' offenda il vero)
Nel tuo leggiadro aspetto
Or vedo alcun difetto,
Che mi parea beltà.

Composer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart,[b] was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.  Read more here.

Poet

Pietro Metastasio

Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti. Metastasio was born in Rome, where his father, Felice Trapassi,…

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