Music #192 - Mozart Dances & Songs

"Deutsche Tänze"

sleigh ride / 雪撬

Three German Dances
- aka "Deutsche Tänze", K.605/3

* Dance 1
* Dance 2
* Dance 3   'Die Schlittenfahrt'


Mozart left a huge production of dances for orchestra,
                      

kanarienvogel / canary / 金絲雀

* No.5 (of 6 German Dances) in K.600 
aka 'Die Kanarienvogel'
Hear the canaries singing (0:40)? 
 
* Vier Deutsche - K.602 
- (four German Dances)

List of concert arias, songs and canons by Mozart

"The Violet" / "Das Veilchen"  / , K.476
* A song written to a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

A violet in the meadow saw a young and singing shepherdess coming. 
It wished to be picked up and fastened to her bosom..... 
But ooops! Her darling feet trampled on the violet, and killed it.

[If the sky has kind stars] / "Ah se in ciel, benigne stelle"

- Aria for soprano & orchestra, K.538

- To sing along

"Longing for Spring" / "Sehnsucht nach dem Frühling"
- Komm, lieber Mai / Come, dear May, K.596

- It became a popular German folk song - here, by the Vienna Boys Choir