Songs

L'Amante impaziente ('Liebes-Ungeduld')

by Ludwig van Beethoven

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Text

L'Amante impaziente ('Liebes-Ungeduld')
Italian source: Pietro Metastasio

Che fa, che fa il mio bene?
Perchè, perchè non viene?
Vedermi vuole languir
Così, così, così!

Oh come è lento nel corso il sole!
Ogni momento mi sembra un dì,
Ogni momento mi sembra un dì,
Sì, sì, mi sembra un dì!

Composer

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the classical and romantic eras in classical music, he remains one of the most recognized and influential…

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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