Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön Williams suggest that the opening notes of "Dies Bildnis" spill over into other numbers of "The Magic Flute": "The opening phrase of 'Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön' turns up at a half-dozen unexpected places in the second finale. These and similar melodic remembrances are not to be regarded as leitmotifs in the Wagnerian sense but as partly unconscious echoes of musical ideas that were in Mozart's mind throughout the composition of the opera." One such echo has been repeatedly noted: the phrase to which Pamina sings the words "" ("My Tamino! Oh what happiness!") when she and Tamino are reunited
Mozart and scatology is ordered by Köchel catalog number. Voices and conjectured dates are from Zaslaw and Cowdery (1990:101–105); and links marked "score" lead to the online edition of the "Neue Mozart-Ausgabe". The following articles have advanced the theory that Mozart had Tourette syndrome: The following articles direct criticism at the hypothesis: Mozart and scatology Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart displayed scatological humour in his letters and a few recreational compositions. This material has long been a puzzle for Mozart scholarship. One view held by scholars deals with the scatology by seeking an understanding of the role of it in Mozart's family, his society and