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La seduzione ('Era bella com'angiol del cielo')Year: 1839
Genre: Solo Song / Lied / Chanson
Pr. Instruments: Voice & Piano
This song, whose title translates as "The Seduction, " is set to a poem by Luigi Balestra that tells of an innocent and beautiful young lady who is seduced by a faithless and uncaring man. She ultimately dies in disgrace, buried in an unmarked grave. The music begins in a straightforward triple-metered declamation that seems to emphasize the innocence and naivete of the young lady. At the mentions of her seduction and disgrace the music goes to the minor mode and the declamation becomes passionately intent. The music returns to its initial tone of innocence as the text tells of her unmarked grave.
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