Better known to us as "Twinkle, twinkle, little star", and (slightly amended) as "Ba, ba, black sheep".
I learnt to play the piano with the assistance of the Eclipse Piano Tutor in the late 1950s, and Ah! vous dirai-je, maman was there on page 34 (unusually, in F major). The composer's name was MOZART.
I picked up one of those "fascinating facts" trivia books, and on page, the fascinating fact was that Mozart composed "Twinkle, twinkle, little star".
I taught the clarient as part of my last teaching job. The tutor "Clarinet Basics" by Paul Harris included the same tune, saying it was by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
So how it is that a tune composed in the 1740s is wrongly attributed to Mozart, even by Paul Harris, who surely should know better?
OK, Mozart composed a fine set of piano variations on this particular theme, but to use that as evidence is like saying Beethoven composed Rule Britannia, or that Brahms, Rachmaninov, Andrew Lloyd Webber, etc, composed that famous bouncy theme.
I learnt to play the piano with the assistance of the Eclipse Piano Tutor in the late 1950s, and Ah! vous dirai-je, maman was there on page 34 (unusually, in F major). The composer's name was MOZART.
I picked up one of those "fascinating facts" trivia books, and on page, the fascinating fact was that Mozart composed "Twinkle, twinkle, little star".
I taught the clarient as part of my last teaching job. The tutor "Clarinet Basics" by Paul Harris included the same tune, saying it was by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
So how it is that a tune composed in the 1740s is wrongly attributed to Mozart, even by Paul Harris, who surely should know better?
OK, Mozart composed a fine set of piano variations on this particular theme, but to use that as evidence is like saying Beethoven composed Rule Britannia, or that Brahms, Rachmaninov, Andrew Lloyd Webber, etc, composed that famous bouncy theme.
) 'Twinkle, twinkle' was based on the French song.
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