Title: Intorno all’idol mio
Music: Antonio Cesti (1623-1669)
Text: Unknown author
Free at Art Song Central:
- PDF: Intorno all’idol mio
- Key: E Minor
- Range: D4 – F5
- Source: Anthology of Italian Song of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- PDF: Intorno all’idol mio
- Key: E Minor
- Range: D4 – F5
- Source: German, French and Italian Song Classics
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Mp3:
MIDI:
Intorno all’idol mio spirate pur, spirate,
Aure, Aure soavi e grate,
E nelle guancie elette
Baciatelo per me,
Cortesi, cortesi aurette!Al mio ben, che riposa
Su l’ali della quiete,
Grati, grati sogni assistete
E il mio racchiuso ardore
Svelate gli per me,
O larve, o larve d’amore!
- Recmusic.org has texts and translations.
The sheet music says “Marco Antonio Cesti”, but according to Baker’s Biographical dictionary, this was inaccurate. Cesti took the name “Antonio” when he joined the Franciscan order. His baptismal name was “Peitro”.