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Leonhard Lechner
(c.1553 - 1606)
Diffugere nives
(S.A.T.T.B.)
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149311 : Lechner : Diffugere nives : sheet music
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Publ. Nuremberg, 1581. The setting of an Horatian Ode, concerning the return of spring, contained in Lechner's Sacrarum cantionum, book 2; probably better considered as a secular madrigal. The translation by Christopher Smart was highly regarded in its day.
Lyrics: Horace, Odes IV.7 (trans. Christopher Smart)
Diffugere nives, redeunt iam gramina campis
Arboribusque comae;
Mutat terra vices et decrescentia ripas
Flumina praetereunt;
Gratia cum nymphis geminisque sororibus audet
Ducere nuda choros.
Immortalia ne speres, monet annus et almum
Quae rapit hora diem.
The snows are fled, the herbage now returns to the fields, and the leaves to the trees;
the earth changes its appearance, and the decreasing rivers glide along their banks;
the elder Grace, together with the Nymphs and her two sisters, ventures naked to lead off the dance.
That you are not to expect things permanent, the year, and the hour that hurries away the agreeable day, admonish us.
Diffugere nives, redeunt iam gramina campis
Arboribusque comae;
Mutat terra vices et decrescentia ripas
Flumina praetereunt;
Gratia cum nymphis geminisque sororibus audet
Ducere nuda choros.
Immortalia ne speres, monet annus et almum
Quae rapit hora diem.
The snows are fled, the herbage now returns to the fields, and the leaves to the trees;
the earth changes its appearance, and the decreasing rivers glide along their banks;
the elder Grace, together with the Nymphs and her two sisters, ventures naked to lead off the dance.
That you are not to expect things permanent, the year, and the hour that hurries away the agreeable day, admonish us.