Talk:List of concert arias, songs and canons by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Multiple linking in lists such as this one

The multiple linking of Metastasio was reverted as overlinking, but I wonder whether this was appropriate. Kleinzach and I have begun a discussion about links in lists. I'd be interested to see what good reasons there are against multiple links in a utilitarian list, which is really something like a database to be consulted at some specific part. It is not primarily for continuous reading, like an ordinary article. I'd also like to know if there is any specific guideline in Wikipedia about linking in lists. I think there are several reasons for linking at every occurrence of key terms in a list, and I can't yet see any reason against – except the spurious reason that some guideline with general scope is presumed to rule it out.

Perhaps discussion at my talkpage would be better than pursuing this right here, though; and then we could find a more appropriate page to continue.

–_⊥^{¡ɐɔıʇǝo}Noetica!^T– 23:32, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Responded at User talk:Noetica#Wikilinks in lists. Michael Bednarek (talk) 01:36, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

deest

Can we really assume that everyone just automagically knows what "deest" means? (Hint: I don't know what it means, and there is nothing on the other Mozart lists.) I could just look it up, but it's more about the principle. 74.192.194.74 (talk) 04:00, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. We've just added a link here: Deest (music)DavidRF (talk) 15:34, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Replacement arias

Do replacement arias go on these lists? An anon just added K. 579 which was a substitute aria for "Venite, inginocchiatevi" in Le nozze di Figaro. Its mentioned at The_Marriage_of_Figaro#Other_early_performances. If it stays, the NMA score link should be fixed. Its "Un moto di gioia mi sento" (Score/Crit. report). DavidRF (talk) 15:51, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

The article's introduction is: "This is a list of concert arias, songs and canons by [WAM]", so I think opera replacement arias shouldn't be listed. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 04:20, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

KV 621a

Obligatory note that it was a rather appropriate text for his last concert aria.

Now that we've got that out of the way, I added the month of composition (c. September). The NMA mentions Prague, and hence this must be either the end of August or in September. Given that in the end of August he'd probably have been working in great haste on La clemenza di Tito, it is probably September. Double sharp (talk) 15:51, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

KV 475a

The original poem has

Einsam bin ich, meine Liebe!
Denke dein, und härme mich.
Ach, wie ist der Welt so trübe, [Mozart: Wie ist mir der Welt so trübe]
Wie so leer mich ohne dich! [Mozart: Wie so traurig ohne dich!]

which is not exactly what Mozart sets. Of course, he probably changed the text himself: in fact, given how the rest of the poem shifts from being beautifully personal to being another annoying case of the author going out into nature and brooding over his loneliness, I wouldn't be surprised if Mozart was rather unenthused by the prospect of continuing his beautiful fragment. Double sharp (talk) 15:07, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

P.S. I confess I do not understand the NMA's strange habit of printing all the strophes. I suppose that in private settings one may be able to perform eighteen verses without all involved being bored to death (or perhaps they would be merely be polite), for strophic settings like KV 519, but even for the through-composed KV 524 they print nine more strophes which Mozart did not set, and could not possibly fit into the music as written. I would much prefer knowing how many verses Mozart intended us to sing, if he had an opinion at all, and if not, simply replicating what he wrote! Double sharp (talk) 15:34, 22 May 2016 (UTC)