re: #173 Alouette

Did people hate Mozart back in the day?

Obvious jokes about Salieri’s fictional feud with him aside, I don’t know. I don’t think popular music was as fraught in the eighteenth century, unless it was political ballads that pissed off the powers that be.

Although there is a scene in “Amadeus” where he wants to write “Figaro”, and the Emperor is worried because the original piece he’s using for the script has some class warfare elements that he doesn’t want to see reproduced.