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probably WA Mozart himself: 1782 232: 509a "Lieber Freistädtler, lieber Gaulimauli" Canon for 4 voices: probably WA Mozart himself: after 4 June 1787 233: 382d "Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber" / "Nichts labt mich mehr als Wein" – Canon for 3 voices: probably WA Mozart himself: 1782 234: 382e "Bei der Hitz im Sommer eß ich"
Playbill for the opening performance of Die Zauberflöte, 30 September 1791. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operas comprise 22 musical dramas in a variety of genres. [a] They range from the small-scale, derivative works of his youth to the full-fledged operas of his maturity.
Leck mich im Arsch" (German for "Lick me in the arse") is a canon in B-flat major composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, K. 231 (K. 382c), with lyrics in German. It was one of a set of at least six canons probably written in Vienna in 1782. [ 1 ]
The opera was the culmination of a period of increasing involvement by Mozart with Schikaneder's theatrical troupe, which since 1789 had been the resident company at the Theater auf der Wieden. Mozart was a close friend of one of the singer-composers of the troupe, tenor Benedikt Schack (the first Tamino), and had contributed to the ...
An anecdote from Mozart's time suggests that the composer himself was very impressed with his sister-in-law's performance. The story comes from an 1840 letter from composer Ignaz von Seyfried , and relates an event from the last night of Mozart's life—4 December 1791, five weeks into the opera's initial (very successful) run.
The finale of act 2, lasting 20 minutes, is one of the longest uninterrupted pieces of music Mozart ever wrote. [36] Eight of the opera's 11 characters appear on stage in its more than 900 bars of continuous music. Mozart uses the sound of two horns playing together to represent cuckoldry in the act 4 aria "Aprite un po' quegli occhi ". [36]
La finta giardiniera ("The Pretend Garden-Girl"), K. 196, is an Italian-language opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.Mozart wrote it in Munich in January 1775 when he was 18 years old and it received its first performance on 13 January at the Salvator Theater [] in Munich. [1]
Opera seria. Libretto by Giambattista Varesco. Mozart wrote a ballet to accompany the opera (K. 367), which he himself considered more of a Lullian divertissement. Regarded as Mozart's first "mature" opera, it is one of his earliest operas to still be regularly performed today. 384: 384: Die Entführung aus dem Serail: 1781–82 16 July 1782