Bei der Hitz im Sommer eß ich

"Bei der Hitz im Sommer eß ich" (English: In the heat of summer I eat) is a canon for three voices in G major, K. 234/382e/Anh.A 40.

In 1988, Wolfgang Plath presented evidence that the composer of this piece, as well as K. 233/382d/Anh.A 39, was in fact Wenzel Trnka (1739–1791).

Ich nehm Limonade, Mandelmilch, auch zu Zeiten Horner Bier; das im heißen Sommer nur.

In the heat of summer I like to eat roots and spices, also butter and radish; they expel a lovely wind and cool me.

Shown in Bärenreiter's Neue Mozart-Ausgabe is the text as changed for the 1804 edition of the canons in Œuvres Complettes by Breitkopf & Härtel.