Mozart's Sex Life | Betwixt The Sheets

[@opheliedoussault7912]

Honestly one of my favorite episodes of this podcast, was so fun to listen to both of you! ❤ Please bring out some more

[@hauwasagoodcharacter2557]

Finding out Mozart was a cat boy is wild

[@jopope7549]

I found your podcast several weeks ago & am now, an avowed fan/listener. It's absolutely fascinating!

[@OtilliaMarr]

here because of Neil Gaiman

[@lolamalvicino712]

Omg same here 😂🙋🏼‍♀️lol jsjsjs

[@lolamalvicino712]

@@teresagardiner153 something with an ask of tumblr about why Mozart is In hell in Good Omens

[@Beckithy]

Same here 😅

[@gnostic268]

Neil Gaiman has a lot of accusations against him so it'll be nice when people stop worshipping him

[@valeriewatson5260]

Fantastically entertaining Vielen Danke 👍🏼

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thanks

[@Chipoo88]

Brilliant

[@theophilos0910]

I’ve often thought the character of the 13-year old Cherubino, the page of Count Almaviva in ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ [K. 492, compos’d between Nov 1785 to 30 April 1786] was a kind of Avatar for Mozart himself who according to his letters home from Italy when he was 14-year old used to make references to his ‘flirting with at least 200 girls’ so he had a lot of ‘sexual energy’ from an early age … his wife Constanza used to say that her husband preferr’d ‘busty-young servant-girleries mainly of the lower classes’ but she was careful to add ‘but harmless flirtations aside, my husband never took them too far…’ M. never grew taller than 4’11” which made him wear 3” heels (often went flying when stamping his foot whilst conducting) and had his hairdresser tease his hair to add another 1 1/2 inches to his height - and this Herr Karajan wrote in his memoirs that ‘M. would never sit still but would jump up and whistle a tune he was working on and clicking his heels he ‘had to show up at 6am always with my special teasing-comb and was forever chasing an always-nervous M. around the sitting room with the ribbon still in mine hands !’ But this special teasing comb had a purpose in trying to make ‘the little man with a big head’ appear taller in public - and direct evidence of the teasing of the hair can be seen in the very accurate profile sketch carried out by Doris Stock a local Silverpoint artist carefully drawn from life in Dresden (using a glass pane grid over two days 14/15 April 1789)- it also shews Mozart’s bulging eyes with their dark circles under them and the neck shews the beginning of goiter from advanced renal-kidney disease One of Mozart’s best friends in Italy was Myslivecek who moved to Munich by 1777 developed tertiary syphillis and underwent the customary removal of the poor man’s nose…and visiting him in hospital during his final months when M. was 21 years old turned him away from consorting with common prostitutes for life … The residents of 18th century Salzburg commonly used scatalogical humour - one of his canons had the words ‘Dificile lectu mihi Mars’ (when sung in a round by 4 singers comes out like ‘du Felice, lech mich im Arsch !’ - ‘hey, you, Felix-suck out my butthole’) but that’s the kind of low humour common among middle classes … In one story after he and his mother arrived in frozen Paris in March of 1778 his mother said, ‘Wolferl ! You just farted ! Feign to deny it !’ To which Wolfgang replied ‘you’re nuts, Mama-I never did !’ But Mama had another opinion of the situation : ‘Why are you lying ? You KNOW you farted just now !’ To which our Mozart said, ‘Well, Mama-there’s only one-way to find out !’ And he put his left index finger into his arse, then put it right up to his nose, and said, ‘I guess you’re right after all, Mama !!’ LoL

[@annikam1782]

Bit bold to refer to Süßmayr as Constanze’s “boyfriend” when there’s no proof for that…. Speaking German, it was very interesting to find that in order to fully understand some of the things she (probably) wants to say, you would have to speak German (eg „he dropped away“) Given that, I was very surprised to find that the book seems to have been published exclusively in English

[@elinat2414]

I love love love this podcast, but the intro has no business being 5 mins long.

[@carlbowler8999]

Was I composing at age 4? It wasn't "Music" as such, it was me hitting randomly on my Major Minor 😅

[@josephcollins6033]

OMG... over 6 minutes before this gets going!

[@cynthiaacevedo3784]

I like to meow. My brother loves butt and fart jokes

[@beantoes9627]

Baudy

[@josephcollins6033]

Leopold was not a genius! This podcast is not of the same quality I have found here before. Musicians who hear this are falling out of their seats.

[@RainKoepke-ic3gf]

Geniuses like poo

[@SoundofColour-h8r]

Oh, yes, yes, people here in Germany (and Austria) do have a sort of humour that's always been more on the scatological side. Even "folk's sayings" and swearing here are always on the theme of poo and toilet things. I'm sure Mozart only joked in a way that was typical for his environment.