Just heard I’m being blamed for every ugly note in Vienna again. I wrote one tasteful melody and somehow became a villain. by 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.