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The Ingenious Prank Music Legend Mozart Played On Someone He Couldn’t Stand

The classical composer humiliated someone he found to be offensive and annoying with his music

3 min readApr 3, 2022

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Hundreds of years after he last walked the earth, prolific composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is still synonymous with classical music, his more than 600 compositions still beguile…

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