> On Aug 10, 2018, at 2:37 AM, Alain Veylit <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just curious: did Mozart compose anything we'd consider "bawdy" or tavern > material??
I don’t know about tavern, but there’s plenty of Mozart that’s not fit for church. Mozart’s “naughty” humor tended toward the juvenile: buttocks, excrement, flatulence. It has led to some talk about his being stunted in his emotional/sexual development, but to be fair, the whole Mozart family, including his mother, seemed inclined toward that sort of humor, as evidenced by their letters. Bona Nox (K. 561), for example, ends with: gute Nacht, gute Nacht, scheiß ins Bett daß' kracht; gute Nacht, schlaf fei g'sund und reck' den Arsch zum Mund. You might want to look up this 1967 recording by the Norman Luboff choir, with Igor Kipnis, no less, at the harpsichord: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Is A Dirty Old Man (The Scatological Canons And Songs Sung In English) https://www.discogs.com/Norman-Luboff-Igor-Kipnis-Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart-Is-A-Dirty-Old-Man-The-Scatological-Canons-And-Son/release/2945663 I wouldn’t actually try to listen to it, because Luboff sanitized the translations, but the website does provide a sort of reference to Mozart’s off-color songs. Like Purcell’s, they often take canonic form. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
