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While I was going through YouTube I came across a video of a young man, named George Li, playing Mozart’s Twinkle, Twinkle variations at a recital.

Additionally, YouTube hosts a variety of recital performances of this work. For example, the “Baby Einstein” videos (Disney) have used this work in their videos. With the internet it has become relatively easy to look up instances in which Mozart’s variations have been used– and most especially when it comes to videos. Mozart’s 12 spectacular variations on the theme “ Ah vous dirai-ie, Maman” have become enormously popular and have been used in commercial, educational, and artistic ventures. It is possible that Mozart did hear it during that time, but analysis of Mozart’s manuscript of the composition by Wolfgang Plat indicates that Mozart likely did not actually compose his theme and variations until 1781-82, when he was in Vienna. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 12 Variations in C Major on “Ah vous dirai-ie, Maman” (1781-82).įor a time it was believed that Mozart composed his piano variations while residing in Paris during April – September of 1778, where he would have been exposed to the French song.Franz Liszt in Album Leaf: “Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman” (1833).Camille Saint-Saens in Carnival of the Animals (1886), the 12th movement entitled “ Fossiles.”.Many composers have used the melody “ Ah! vousdirai-je, Maman” as inspiration for their compositions. And the text is from an early 19th-century poem entitled, “The Star” by Jane Taylor (first published in 1806). The tune is of the French melody “ Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman” (believed to be first published in 1761). Though it is a commonly sung lullaby it is perhaps less commonly known that the melody and lyrics were not written together, or even for each other, and that this lullaby was NOT written by Mozart. I’ve sung it to my children many, many times. Of all the children’s nursery rhymes and lullabies this is one of my favorites.