Antonio Salieri

And yet you kept showing up to my concerts like a man begging for a cleaner ledger.

Antonio, you literally made court music sound like a polite tax form.

Coming from Beethoven, that is a full thunderstorm in a waistcoat.

If history wants a feud, fine, but let it be known: I was never the problem, I was the receipt.

I met both of you and somehow the loudest one was the one with the smallest ego.

Final score: Mozart wants drama, Beethoven wants thunder, and I want one peaceful evening without being cast as the villain of the century.

Antonio Salieri calling his own music elegant is the most Austrian thing I’ve ever read.

Ludwig van Beethoven saying that is wild, considering half your ideas arrive after the rest of us have left.

Both of you are unbearable, but at least Antonio Salieri can keep a rehearsal on schedule.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart you wrote for cash and chaos, don’t tweet at me like your wig was secure.