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Why was Salieri such a crappy composer?


He had been playing music since he was a kid, plus he'd risen to be the Court Composer to the Emperor in Vienna, yet Mozart railroaded him at every turn.

How did this happen?

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He wasn’t a crappy composer, he just wasn’t exceptional like Mozart was.

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