Nel mirar quel sasso amato

Song TitleNel mirar quel sasso amato (Search)
Composer(s):Johann Adolph Hasse
Author(s):Pietro Metastasio
Keyword(s) & Features: Adoration; Beloved; Da Capo Aria; Errors; Eternal; Expiring; Faces; Foreboding; Gathering; Good; Grief; Hiding; Influence; Marble; Memory; Mercy; Pain; Past; Remembering; Statues; Stones; Sun; Tragic; Watching
First LineNel mirar quel sasso amato, (Search)
Year of composition 1746 (Search) Circa
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=1285913
Larger WorkSant'Elena al Calvario (Search)
Musical FormDa capo aria (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsEnlightenment (Search)
Original LanguageItalian (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/b/b6/IMSLP462767-PMLP87176--MS_9-_S._elena_al_Calvario_02.pdf#page=3
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano
Range: B3 - A5 (Search)
Original KeyE Major (Search)
NotesSung by Sant'Elena near the beginning of Part II (Search)
Orchestra and voice?Yes (Search)
Sources Citedhttps://www.loc.gov/resource/musschatz.21992.0/?sp=10&r=-0.068,-0.025,1.162,0.968,0 (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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