Work Title
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Ah! che soffrir mi resta
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Alternative. Title
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Barcarola napoletana ; Canzonetta
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Composer
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Anonymous
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I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.
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IA 18
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Key
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C major
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First Publication.
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1820 or before in Canzoncine Nazionali Napoletane e Siciliane (?)
- London: Birchall & Co. (1820 or before)
London reprint (Chappell & Co.) Paris: Pacini (1810-66)
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Librettist
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Ferdinando Pignatèlli (1769-1799), principe di Strongoli - possible author of text Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel (1752-1799) - another possible author of text
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Language
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Italian
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Piece Style
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Romantic
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Instrumentation
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voice, piano
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Related Works
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Aria Napolitana, G.38, by Georg Gerson was composed to this text in 1810.
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Extra Information
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The poem was published anonymously in 1799 in the revolutionary journal of the short-lived Parthenopean Republic: Nuovo Monitore Napolitano. The song (with music) was published sometime between 1810 and 1835 in Naples by Girard as part of the series, Canzoncine Nazionali Napoletane e Siciliane. A variant of the tune (stanza 1–4) with guitar accompaniment by Luigi Picchianti (1786–1864) was published around 1835 in Firenze as part of a collection Trentasei ariette nazionali. The initial 4 lines of the poem are found in Felice Romani’s (1788–1865) libretto to a buffo opera staged in Madrid in 1835: I due Figaro by Saverio Mercadante, itself based on the 1792 French play Les deux Figaro by Honoré-Antoine Richaud Martelly (1751–1817).
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