(April 29, 2016 at 4:21 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Somewhat unfair to Salieri who was every bit as competent as other composers in Austria/Germany at the time, Dittersdorf, Van Hal, Benda, Stamitz, etc.
Well, fun fact, Mozart was neither Austrian nor German. He came from a small independent theocratic domain called Salzburg, which only became part of Austria after the Congress of Vienna.