Difficile Lectu, K. 559

Me, myself, and I perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s dirty canon, Difficile Lectu (K. 559). Difficile Lectu was a song written by Mozart specifically to mock the Bavarian accent of singer Johann Nepomuk Peyeri. The pseudo-Latin lyrics contain two bilingual puns: “lectu mihi mars“ resembles Bavarian German “leck du mi im Arsch“ (lick me in the ass); “jonicu“, sung repeatedly, resembles Italian “cujoni“, slang for “testicles“. Technical information: audio was recorded and mixed using SONAR X1; the video foot
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