Sam Kemp wrote:

>Meanwhile, Ray Bayles said:
>
>>Mozart, too, poked fun at music as he composed...  though his is a little
>>easier to hear than is that of Beethoven.
>
>And then there's the "Musical Joke" that in my opinion is as pathetic as
>it is contrived, and the "poking fun at music" is hardly difficult to hear
>there.......

Don Giovanni's comments on Mozart's Marriage of Figaro in the last scene
of DG before the epilogue is the example that comes to my mind first when
thinking of the fun he poked at his own music.

Walter Meyer