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Power and danger of fantasizing the history

  Power of fantasizing the history Today any work, a movie, a book etc., seem to    claims based on a real story/incidents, or real characters in the history .. this seems to be a hot cake, irrespective of authenticity. This reminds me of something about an Italian composer called Antonio Salleri, who was a top composer of his times. We all know Wolfgang Amedeus Mozhart , simply known as mozhart , considered greatest western classical composer. The two other composers of his time are Beethoven and Bach .. all 3 of them were celebrated composers. Antonio salleri is also well known but for wrong reasons., all above 3 were his students and he was a court composer in Vienna (like asthana vidvamsudu). He taught Beethoven for sure, taught and collaborated with mozhart for sure, Bach may be in a different area , they may have met but not sure if he was a student too.  There was a very different relationship mozhart and Salleri maintained, there seems to be lot of proof from letters etc.,that
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Birthday wishes to the Legendary composer and one of the greatest creators ever lived on our planet I thought I should write something on his birthday more than just wishes. Like millions, I have grown up with his music and today it became part of my life, just like my own self, family and friends.. If I have to write, I don't know where to start. too many songs and thoughts around them are competing with each other... I realize that I knew his 'music' much before I 'knew' him.. For today , I just want to stick to my earliest memory,  I were in my 5th or 6th std, they used to play this track almost every day on All India Radio,  I was too small to really understand the nuances of music,  but used to enjoy every bit of it. I don't remember if I knew the name of composer then.. For the first time, I heard something very modern, yet so melodious , something which was fresh and never heard before ...I remember my mother used to hum this and tham thana nam