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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish36•2 months agoThe last Austrian that did big damage to the world would beg to differ
minus-squarepalordrolaplinkfedilink13•2 months agoI’ve heard it said that Austria’s greatest trick was allowing the world to believe that that guy was German and that Mozart was Austrian. Edit: I’ve been informed that I may have misremembered. See reply. I was right about the dangerous fellow though.
minus-square[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•2 months agoMozart actually was Austrian :-), this joke is usually told with Beethoven, who was born German but spent most of his life in Vienna.
The last Austrian that did big damage to the world would beg to differ
I’ve heard it said that Austria’s greatest trick was allowing the world to believe that that guy was German and that Mozart was Austrian.
Edit: I’ve been informed that I may have misremembered. See reply.
I was right about the dangerous fellow though.
Mozart actually was Austrian :-), this joke is usually told with Beethoven, who was born German but spent most of his life in Vienna.