Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber
musical composition by Wenzel Trnka, with scatological lyrics by Mozart
"Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber" ("Lick my arse right well and clean") is a canon for three voices in B-flat major, K. 233/382d/Anh.A 39. The music was long thought to have been composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during 1782 in Vienna, but now thought to be the work of Wenzel Trnka. The lyrics appear to stem from Mozart.
Authenticity
In 1988, Wolfgang Plath presented evidence that the composer of this piece, as well as "Bei der Hitz im Sommer eß ich", K. 234/382e/Anh.A 40, was in fact Wenzel Trnka (1739–1791). That Mozart might not be the author of "Sie ist dahin", K. 229, "Selig, selig", K. 230, "Leck mich im Arsch", K. 231, this work, K. 233, and "Bei der Hitz im Sommer eß ich", was already mentioned in the Bärenreiter Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (NMA) in 1974. The Trnka canon's original lyrics were "Tu sei gelosa, è vero", but Mozart set the canon to his own scatological lyrics. Mozart's widow Constanze Mozart submitted the modified canon to publisher Breitkopf & Härtel.
Lyrics
The rediscovered, probably original, text reads:
Alternative lyrics
Shown in Bärenreiter's Neue Mozart Edition is the text as changed either by Johann Christoph Härtel (1763–1827) or
by Christoph Gottlob Breitkopf (1750–1800) for the 1804 edition of the canons in Œvres Complettes by Breitkopf & Härtel.
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