"Difficile lectu", K. 559, is a canon composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The music, in F major, is set for three singers. The words are most likely...

unpublished) as well as the autographs of Mozart's scatological canons "Difficile lectu" and "O du eselhafter Peierl". Zweig sent copies of the Bäsle letters...

error about the Goethe source: the line occurs in the third act. "Difficile lectu" – a canon with a disguised Latin version of the same text "Bona nox"...

be sung immediately following "Difficile lectu". For the tale of how these two canons originated, see "Difficile lectu". Mozart later transposed "O du...

mondegreen. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart produced a similar effect in his canon "Difficile Lectu" (Difficult to Read), which, though ostensibly in Latin, is actually...

Mozart also entered on the 2 September 1788 into his catalogue are: "Difficile lectu mihi Mars" K. 559, and "O du eselhafter Peierl" K. 560a; other canons...

Urtext? No, that Mozart was a decent man! "Leck mich im Arsch", K. 231 "Difficile lectu mihi mars", K. 559 "Bona nox", K. 561 Mozart and scatology The Mozart...

2 September 1788 32 Vienna 559 559 Canon in F for 3 voices in 1, "Difficile lectu mihi Mars" 2 September 1788 32 Vienna 560a 559a Canon in F for 4 voices...

d'Hetz" (Score) Canon for 4 voices unknown 2 September 1788 559   "Difficile lectu mihi mars" (Score) Canon for 3 voices probably WA Mozart himself 2...

librettist Metastasio. Mozart enjoyed singing canons with his friends (see "Difficile lectu"), and particularly liked canons with humorous scatological lyrics...

("Lick my arse") or variations thereof (including the pseudo-Latin Difficile lectu mihi mars). While the term "Leck mich am Arsch", when literally translated...

F. Warner, Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1846). He died in Bad Kreuznach. Difficile lectu (Mozart)#First performance—a tale Weber told about Mozart in the pages...