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