While I Play Appropriate Music
You can read more about this fun little tune by Mozart on Wikipedia here. There’s also a MIDI file so you can hear it. Sheet music is here.
Wolfgang made a lot of scatological jokes in his lifetime & this isn’t the only song he performed for friends that had toilet humor. He had a problem. The literal translation of the song title is rather gross, but it’s the equivalent of “Kiss my ass”, so that’s the translation I’m using.
Somebody left a review on iTunes for a collection of Mozart songs saying, “My personal favorite is the beautiful choir symphony “Leck Mich Im Arsch”. Oh so wonderful!” *Ahem*, heh, I wonder if that person knows what they’re saying in that song. It sounds nice, though.
Fuego Hare: In dedication to our recent hurricane, I’d like to perform a canon by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart called…
(“Leck Mich im Arsch” written in 1782 because he felt like it.)
Yep, a lot of people don't realize that a bunch of stuff that's now "classical" + "upper class art" was originally written as really low-life or really dirty art.
such as, the dance, the tango, before it was picked up by ballet schools + prim high
school teachers, was the favorite dance of whores + brothels, in 1910.
Or, if you sing songs from Mozart's "The Magic Flute", you'll see that-the man character says thing that are like:
"Hey baby, I like to watch birds, + you do too! Let's jump in the bushes + make a lot of kids!"
Hoo boy! Not all classic art + music is G-rated stuff!
Ok, to satisfy the people who are into pure history:
the tango MAYBE wasn't born from brothels, but it was made popular in 1905-era, in brothels, dance halls + dance halls with dancing-ladies-who-also-were-call-girls, but I say- no one really knows who invented the dance. Maybe it was a call girl, maybe it was a squeaky clean girl, who knows?
If he saw it, I bet Mozart would like the tango!