Nuits d'été à Pausilippe, A 183-194 (Donizetti, Gaetano)

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Publisher. Info. Mainz: Schott, n.d.(ca.1837?). Plate 4750.
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No.9. Le départ du volontaire

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Arranger Joseph Vimeux (1803-1847)
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Work Title Nuits d'été à Pausilippe
Alternative. Title 6 ariettes et 6 nocturnes
Composer Donizetti, Gaetano
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. A 183-194
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. IGD 53
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 6 songs and 6 duets
  1. Il barcaiuolo. Barcarolle / Un jour en mer (A 183 ; In.350)
  2. Il crociato. Romance / Le croisé (A 184 ; In.352)
  3. A mezzanotte. Ariette / À minuit (A 185 ; In.311)
  4. La torre di Biasone. Ballade / La tour enchantée (A 186)
  5. La conocchia / La fileuse. Chanson napolitaine (A 187 ; In.373)
  6. Le crépuscule. Romance (A 188)
  7. Il giuramento. Nocturne / Le retour des proscrits (A 189)
  8. L'aurora. Nocturne / Les jeunes filles de Sorrente (A 190)
  9. L'alito di Bice. Nocturne / Le départ du volontaire (A 191 ; In.381)
  10. Amor, voce del cielo. Nocturne / Les Napolitains (A 192 ; In.318)
  11. Il guardo ed una voce. Nocturne / Une nuit sur l'eau (A 193 ; In.455)
  12. I bevitori. Brindisi / Les chasseurs de Chamois (A 194 ; In.349)
Text Incipit see below
  1. Voga, voga, il vento tace
  2. Colle piume sul cimiero
  3. Quando notte sarà oscura
  4. Vedi là, sulla collina
  5. Quann'a lo bello mio voglio parlare
  6. L'aube naît, et ta porte est close!
  7. Tuo, finchè il sol rischiara
  8. Vedi come in sul confine
  9. O profumo delicato
  10. Sì, t'amo, a te nascondere / En mains les mandolines
  11. Uno sguardo di nera pupilla / L'air est pure
  12. Mesci, mesci e sperda il vento / Vite, à la montagne!
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1836
Librettist see below
  1. Leopoldo Tarantini (1811-1882)
  2. Carlo Guaita
  3. Anonymous
  4. Leopoldo Tarantini
  5. popular
  6. Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
  7. Michele Palazzolo
  8. Leopoldo Tarantini
  9. Francesco Puoti, Italian text; Louis Crevel de Charlemagne (1806-1882), French text
  10. Leopoldo Tarantini, Italian text; Louis Crevel de Charlemagne (1806-1882), French text
  11. Michele Palazzolo
  12. Leopoldo Tarantini
Language Italian, French
Dedication see below
  1. Madame de Coussy
  2. M-me [?] Cinti-Damoreau
  3. J.B. Rudini
  4. M-lle C. Unger
  5. Luigi Lablache (1794–1858)
  6. Comte de Béarn
  7. la Duchesse de Canizzaro
  8. G. Duprez [?]
  9. M-me Julia Grisi
  10. M-me Thayer née Bertrand (possibly Hortense Eugenie Bertrand Thayer, 1810-1889)
  11. Ivanoff (Nicolai Ivanoff; Николай Кузьмич Иванов (1810-1880))
  12. Tamburini (Antonio Tamburini, 1800-1876)
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation voice (Nos.1-6) / 2 voices (Nos.7-12), piano

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  • Nuits d'été à Pausilippe, an album consisting of ariettas, romanzas, notturnos, duettinos composed expressly for chamber performance, is rather more interesting than the general run of Donizetti's attempts at the genre. "La Conocchia" is an agreeable little Neapolitan dialect piece, tells of a woman who parades in front of a window when she wants her young man to notice her. Victor Hugo's Le Crépuscule has inspired the composer to a more impassioned melody than the Neapolitan texts have wrung from him, Il Barcajuol, its text by leopold Tarantini, has a distinguished, quasi-operatic melody, and A Mezzanotte is a lively midnight serenade in which the lover speaks of the presence of a third person namely, Love.
  • It seems that some of the French texts are independent from the Italian originals.