Francesco Paolo Tosti
Written in G major, range D4 to E5
The title means “Ideal”. The singer once followed their love like a rainbow across the sky and felt them in the light, the air and the scent of flowers; now they beg that ideal to come back, even for a moment, and smile again. Tosti wrote it in 1882 to words by Carmelo Errico, and Ricordi printed it that year with Tosti’s own piano part.
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