Did you know that Mozart wrote a song called "Lick My Ass"?

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Did anybody else catch Hey! Spring of Triva?

If you don't believe me then just google for "Leck mich im arsch".
 
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At the age of 7, Mozart proposed marraige to Marie Antoinette. He also wrote a song called "Leck Mich Im Arsch" (Lick my Arse) and a bass aria called "Every Man is Fond of Nibbling."
 

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http://www.tcnj.edu/~mckinney/mozart_leaves_paris.htm


MOZART LEAVES PARIS

After the death of his mother, Mozart leaves Paris on September 26 for Salzburg. In a letter to his father from Nancy, he indicates that he is not bringing home many compositions. The fact of the matter is, he wrote very little while in Paris, and we are not sure why. Perhaps the death of his mother was so traumatic he could not continue in a productive manner. Salzburg held little interest for him now, and in a letter to his father from Strasbourg dated October 15, 1778 he states. . . "at Salzburg I don't know who I am--I am everything and then again, I'm nothing--I ask neither too much nor too little--but I want something--I need to be somebody..."Mozart hesitated to return to his father, the archbishop and Salzburg.
After a stop in Mannheim, he wrote his cousin "the Bäsle" from Kaisheim - north of Augsburg - that he would not be stopping to see her, but in hopes she will come to Munich where they could spend some time together. He also asked her to come to Salzburg, perhaps wanting some moral support knowing his father will most assuredly blame him for the death of his mother as well as other happenings that occurred during his departure from Salzburg and his stay in Paris. . . "for you might have an important role to play--so be sure to come even for a bit, otherwise we'll be in deep shit." (Kaisheim, December 23, 1778)

His arrived in Munich was on December 25, 1778 and most anxious to present to Aloysia an aria he had composed for her as an engagement present. The aria K. 316/300b, is taken from a Gluck libretto for his opera "Alceste", the librettist being Raniero Calzabigi. The worst happened when he arrived - Aloysia rejected him and he was devastated. He soon got hold of himself and according to Nissen, sat at the piano and sang: "Leck mir das Mensch im Arsch, das mich nicht will." ("Let the wench who doesn't want me kiss my ass")

("Let the wench who doesn't want me kiss my ass")
 

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Did it not become widely known around the time the Amadeus movie came out?

I remember this incident being reported around that time (cut'n'pasted from wikipedia)


For example, when Margaret Thatcher was apprised of Mozart's scatology during a visit to the theatre to see Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus, director Peter Hall relates:

She was not pleased. In her best headmistress style, she gave me a severe wigging for putting on a play that depicted Mozart as a scatological imp with a love of four-letter words. It was inconceivable, she said, that a man who wrote such exquisite and elegant music could be so foul-mouthed. I said that Mozart's letters proved he was just that: he had an extraordinarily infantile sense of humour ... "I don't think you heard what I said", replied the Prime Minister. "He couldn't have been like that". I offered (and sent) a copy of Mozart's letters to Number Ten the next day; I was even thanked by the appropriate Private Secretary. But it was useless: the Prime Minister said I was wrong, so wrong I was.
 

Torn Mind

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The Marriage of Figaro encapsulates Mozart's personality quite well...which probably why it's so on point in the first place. Humourous, extraverted, irreverent and mocking of nobles.

Now, you wouldn't think it, but "Voi che sapete" is an expression male teenage crushes and hormones raging. But then again...Max Martin did that in the modern day with the likes of "As Long As You Love Me'. Thank the operas for existing, because Mozart would have been fossilized as some hermit in an ivory tower if the classical fandom had its way.

Oh...for old days "Venere"(Venus) was what would have flattered women back then. "Birdcatcher" had sexual innuendo.

That he had to please the paycheck writers doesn't he necessarily enjoyed being caged into the "pop" of the day, but sure made work better than most, and put in subtle rebellion like with the "Dissonance" quartet's opening. It isn't long...but it was "beyond the musical writing paradigm" of the day, causing many to think he made mistakes in the cadences.
 
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