Mozart? Scatology? Surely Not!

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I've been chatting with @CRK109 about Monet's kitchen being preserved for posterity. I said I didn't think I'd ever be famous enough for my kitchen to be preserved. Probably many famous people never expected that objects and places associated them would have such interest for future generations. A number of letters and recreational music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's has been preserved. He and his family displayed much scatological humour in their correspondence to each other. The definition I found for scatology says 'obscene literature that is concerned with excrement and excretion'. Opinions differ as to why there was such preoccupation with such matters. One view is that interest in or tolerance for scatology is a specific trait of German national culture, to a greater degree than in other cultures. Others believe it is just one of a number of psychiatric conditions from which Mozart is believed to have suffered. Mozart, his parents, sister and cousin, are all known to have written scatological letters to each other. It's not hard to find examples on the net if you search. I do wonder, however, if they might all have destroyed such correspondence if they had realised the letters would survive for generations. Later: Edited to insert photo of Mozart instead of Bach. Apologies to all and thanks to those who put me right.