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Can anyone tell me the lyrics of "O' Fortuna" song, composed by Mozart?

2006-06-21 06:17:42 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music Music

3 answers

I don't think it was composed by Mozart. Carl Orff, maybe. He composed the opera Carmina Burana, which features O Fortuna at the beginning and end. The song is in Latin.

Carl Orff - O Fortuna Song Lyrics
O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.

Sors immanis
et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
obumbrata
et velata
michi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.

Sors salutis
et virtutis
michi nunc contraria,
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
Hac in hora
sine mora
corde pulsum tangite
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!

2006-06-21 06:20:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Lyrics (and translations)

Text:
1.
O Fortuna,
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut descrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem. Translation:

O Fortune,
just as the moon
you vary your state
always increasing
or decreasing; 5
the detestable life
now difficult
and then easy
with your games sharpens
poverty,
power 10
dissolves like ice.




2.
Sors inmanis
et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
obrumbratam
et velatam
mihi quoque niteris,
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.


Often great
and empty,
your revolving wheel, 15
an evil state,
vain health
always dissolving,
concealing
and veiled 20
you also strive for me
now by game,
a lost shirt
I guiltily take because of you.




3.
Sors salutis
et virtutis
mihi nunc contraria,
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria;
hac in hora
sine mora
cordis pulsum tangite,
quod per sortem
sternit fortem
mecum omnes plangite.


Often my health 25
and my virtue
are now contrary for me,
affected
and defective
always in torment; 30
In this hour
without delay
take the pulse of my heart,
which through fate,
she overthrows my strength: 35
weep all of you with me.

2006-06-21 13:24:00 · answer #2 · answered by flstgrl26 2 · 0 0

You are talking aobut Carmina Burana composed by Carl Orff and it sung in latin. The full lyrics an be found below:

http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~rejs/carmlyr.html

or here:

http://www.kentmerkezi.com/avni/lyrics/carmina.html

2006-06-21 13:23:40 · answer #3 · answered by jleslie4585 5 · 0 0

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