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Graeme Skinner (in the booklet notes) with CD, TP (Tall Poppies) 009
Mozart: Unexpurgated Scatological and Other Songs, Canons and Piano
Variations", suggests scatology was a subject of Mozart secret family
language. He sites a letter (January 1778) of WAM to his mother: "I'll
keep the Concerto for Paris, it's more fitting To scribble it down there
one day when I'm shitting." Another from 56 year old Frau Mozart to
husband, Leopold: "Best wishes, my beau, and lick your backside so. Good
night, dear, but first you must shit in your bed and make it bust" (1977).
>From memory of my childhood it would seem that humor in such vein is
commonplace in German families and has absolutely nothing to do with
lifestyle or stature achieved.
Norman
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