Video That Time Mozart Pirated a Forbidden Piece of Music from the Catholic Church from Memory

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is known for many things, few of which we care to cover on this site because you probably already know all about them. Instead, we prefer to cover things that you likely didn’t know, like that the alphabet song was based on a tune by Mozart, or covering his extremely adult themed works that included a bit of an obsession with all things scatological, and the significantly more family friendly subject of today- that time Mozart pirated a cherished choral arrangement from the Vatican, reportedly all from memory.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart#/media/File:Croce-Mozart-Detail.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart#/media/File:Wolfgang-amadeus-mozart_1.jpg
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