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himself and Beethoven's pupil Archduke Rudolph. The first stanza goes: The Lied, Art Song, and Choral Texts Archivebr>
/ref> :Ecco quel fiero istante: :Nice, mia Nice, addio. :Come vivrò ben mio, :Così lontan da te?

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* Pietro Metastasio *

* Caffarelli *

as "Ecco quel fiero istante", K. 436 *

, as WoO. 124 * Carl Blum * Friedrich August Bungert 1884 * Johann Wilhelm Hertel * Friedrich Wilhelm Rust as "La Partenza di Nice", 1784 * Rossini * Bortniansky

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Partenza 1749 poems 1749 compositions