Aria in D major: "Mit Mädeln sich vertragen"; for bass & orchestra (c. 1790)

Biamonti 28, WoO 90
this second aria for bass and orchestra can actually be traced to the Geothe singspiel Claudine de Villabella in which it is sung antiphonally between Rugantino and the Vagabond chorus. The text of Beethoven's version is quite different from the version used by Reichardt. In Beethoven's version, the vagabonds have gone home, leaving a cheery bass to sing a rather solid Mozart buffa aria, compete with an onomatopoetic section based on the sound of swords clashing - kling, klang, ding, dang, and so forth. A real trick for a record needle test as it sounds very little like Beethoven.