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Popoli di Tessaglia!
(Thessaly’s people)
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Raniero da Calzabigi Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
English version by Lorraine Noel Finley Piano reduction by John Verrall
Text from Act I, Scene 2 of Gluck’s opera Alceste. Alcestis, exemplary wife and mother, who has
pledged to the gods to die in place of her husband, King Admetus, comes to join the Thessalians in
lamentation and prayer for pity.
Recitativo .
Andante sostenuto e languido
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Aloestis.
Po - po-li di Tes-
Ss Thes - sa-ly’s peo- ple,
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