Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart* (1756-1901):
Ridente la calma, K. 152 [210a]
Text: Anonymous
Original Key/Recorded Key: F Major
Teach-Track begins: m. 1
Accompaniment Track begins: m. 1
Pianist: Daniel Michalak
* The article on Mozart in The New Grove?s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Macmillan, London, 1980, ed. Stanley Sadie) suggests that this song is not actually by Mozart, but in fact is an ?adapted arrangement? of an aria by one of his contemporaries, the composer Josef Myslivecek.
Notes © 1999 by Daniel O. Michalak
Ridente la calma nell'alma si desti;
Smiling the calm in the soul itself let awaken;
Né resti più segno di sdegno e timor.
Now let remain longer a sign of anger and fear.
Tu vieni, frattanto, a stringer, mio bene,
You come, meanwhile, to tighten, my beloved,
Le dolce catene sí grate al mio cor.
The sweet chains so welcome in my heart.