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Chi vol che m’innamori
Staff Notation • Madrigals
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3 editions of this piece
Different typesettings and voicings of the same work. This page shows the main edition; the others are below.
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Chi vol che m’innamori by Claudio Monteverdi — Lyrics
Chi vol che m’innamori,
mi dica almen di che!
Se d’animati fiori
un fior, e che cos’è?
Se de bell’occhi ardenti
ah, che sian tosto spenti!
La morte, ohimè, m’uccide
il tempo tutto frange
oggi, oggi si ride..
e poi, domani, si piange.
Se vol ch’un aureo crine
mi leghi, e che sarà!
Se di gelate brine,
quel or si spargerà?
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About Chi vol che m’innamori
Claudio Monteverdi's Chi vol che m’innamori is a secular Italian madrigal for ATB voices. Its text questions the very nature of love and desire, asking what it is one should fall in love with. The composer explores the ephemeral nature of beauty and life, contrasting fleeting pleasures with the inevitability of death. The music reflects these themes with vivid imagery and rhetorical figures, capturing the Renaissance fascination with word painting. Monteverdi's masterful setting of this philosophical text reveals the depth of human experience, contemplating vanity and mortality with both wit and pathos.
