Reception
The canon is perhaps the most often performed of Mozart's comic canons; performances have often used bowdlerized versions of the lyrics.
Zaslaw and Cowdury (1990) express admiration for the work, saying "it makes brilliant use of imitative and hocket-like devices" and "possesses the clockwork-like vocal interplay of a well-wrought opera buffa ensemble."
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