Veritas (Atto Melani)
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Zschackwitz, Johann Ehrenfried, Leben und Thaten Josephi I. Römischen Käysers, sambt der unter Sr.Majestät glorwürdigsten Regierung vorgefallenen Reichs-Historie. Alles mit behörigen Documenten bekräfftiget (etc.), Leipzig 1712.
PIECES OF MUSIC PERFORMED IN VERITAS
1. “Crucifixus et sepultus est” (p. 00)
Gioacchino Rossini, Petite messe solemnelle. The gentle reader will forgive the anachronism (Rossini lived in the first half of the nineteenth century), but this piece was performed in 1902 by Alessandro Moreschi, the last castrato of the Sistine Chapel, the only emasculated singer whose voice was ever recorded. The original is kept at the Discoteca Nazionale in Rome.
2. Arrival in Vienna (p. 00)
Johann Joseph Fux, Serenada en Ut majeur K352: Fanfare ex C – Marche.
3. “Credi, oh bella, ch’io t’adoro” (p. 00)
Camilla de Rossi, Oratorio di Sant’ Alessio.
4. Procession of the Turks (p. 00)
Giovan Battista Lulli, “La ceremonie des Turcs”, from: Molière, Le bourgeois gentilhomme.
5. “Resurrexit” (p. 00)
Joseph I, Regina coeli
6. “Cielo, pietoso Cielo” (p. 00)
Camilla de Rossi, Oratorio di Sant’ Alessio.
7. “Duol sofferto per amore” (p. 00)
Camilla de Rossi, Oratorio di Sant’ Alessio.
8. “Sonori concenti” (p. 00)
Camilla de Rossi, Oratorio di Sant’ Alessio.
9. “Un barbaro rigor” (p. 00)
Camilla de Rossi, Oratorio di Sant’ Alessio.
10. “Languet anima mea” and “O vulnera, vita coelestis” (pp. 00–00)
Francesco Conti, Cantata Languet anima mea.
11. “Vae Soli” (p. 00)
Gregorio Strozzi, Sonata di basso solo.
12. The Day of Wrath (p. 00)
Josef Johan Fux, Kaiserrequiem, K 51–53: “Dies Irae”.
13. The Wake (pp. 00–00): Josef Johan Fux, Media vita in morte sumus.
14. The Farewell (pp. 00–00): Josef Johann Fux, Kaiserrequiem: Kyrie Eleison.
Endnotes
1. Know, O fair one, I adore thee / And that I love you Heaven knows / But other beauty now does call me / And a more serene repose . . .
2. Gems and gold, how can they please me, / If my love so cruelly flees me; / That you love me, you declare / And yet your love you do forswear. / You do but play the part / Of love, your lips pronounce but not your heart.
3. O now I’m called away, / This great command I must obey, / I’m bade to stay no longer here, / Dear love, I bid thee now adieu . . .
4. Heaven, pitiful Heaven . . .
5. A dart, a bolt, a blow / I will await from thee, / O wound, arrest, strike low/Who broke his pledge to me . . .
6. O Hope, who art so pale, / I know you hope no more, / and yet the heart so sore / to rouse you never fail.
7. Then when hope failed.
8. Pain suffered for love / Loses the name of pain / Turns to a rose each thorn / It feels no need to mourn / And feels no more the pain.
9. If I endeavour to efface / His memory, then my affection grows / And if my heart to him I try to close / My yearning for him grows apace.
10. With harmonious sounds / Animate the air / Explain, declare / The heart’s joyous stories.
11. With innocent rounds / Of learned voice.
12. Sing and rejoice / At all Love’s glories.
13. A barbarous rigour / Made my wretched heart / A toy for adversity / And cruel fate is fain / That an example of pain / The soul must now be.
14. Let it be but chaste / Love always delights . . .
15. And let it be an eternal flame / hidden within the heart.
16. In the flower of his years and in flowery April, / The eldest of your sons, AUGUST LAND, dies: / Wise he was in the Palace, on the Field bold, / Of Warriors and of Monarchs he was the Flower. / Weep Austria, and in the ancestral Dominion . . .