I know of a 'Trinkkanon' by Mozart: This is the text (in German of course!):
Freunde, lasset uns beim Zechen
wacker eine Lanze brechen!
Es leb' der Wein,
die Liebste mein!
Drauf leer' sein Gläschen jeder aus.
Mit euch ist gar nichts anzufangen,
da sitzt ihr still wie Hopfenstangen.
Sie lebe hoch!
So schreiet doch!
Sie lebe hoch!
So schreiet doch,
so schreiet doch!
Seid ihr wie Stockfisch denn geworden stumm,
seid ihr wie Stockfisch denn geworden stumm?
So schreit, so schreit, so schreit,
ihr Esel, doch, seid nicht so dumm!
Es leb' die Liebe und der Wein!
Was könnt' auf Erden Schön'res sein?
Vivat, vivat, vivat,
sie lebe hoch!
Paolo
Paolo Busato
Lute-maker
Il 10/08/2018 18:27, howard posner ha scritto:
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.
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