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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